1929 shareholder obsession comic

In the late 1920s, stock trading became an obsessive trend across the US. Back then, most Americans usually used borrowed money to trade stocks without doing much research.

As this Rollin Kirby comic shows: Cleaners and maids, taxi drivers, doormen, police, and factory workers all flocked to the stock market hoping to get rich quickly. This is a comic published in the first issue of “Businessweek” magazine less than eight weeks before the major collapse of the US stock market on September 7, 1929.

The picture is a pot of roses. People from all walks of life compete like bees to pick honey (highlighting the mentality of stock fans)

From Jason Zweig The Wall Street Journal Jan 19 2020