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Why aren’t we seeing any suicides on Wall Street?

September 23rd, 2008

Slate Explainer, Why aren’t we seeing any suicides on Wall Street?:

“Tall tales about panicked speculators leaping to their deaths have become part of the popular lore about the Great Crash. But although jumping from bridges or buildings was the second-most-popular form of suicide in New York between 1921 and 1931, the “crash-related jumping epidemic” is just a myth.”

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