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Accordingly the audacious and enterprising business men who would nowadays go into speculation in stocks, were then forced into speculation in land.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Accordingly the audacious and enterprising business men who would nowadays go into speculation in stocks, were then…”
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Roosevelt compares the speculative nature of business in his time to the land speculation of earlier entrepreneurs.
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