From Soaring Dreams to Crashing Reality: The Aviation Stock Rollercoaster of the Roaring Twenties
Fortunes Made, But Not Kept
(Note: This is an excerpt from my upcoming book on the History of Financial Booms and Busts)
The Roaring Twenties were defined by wild speculation in the stock market.
Aviation stocks held a prime spot in this frenzied dance.
The aviation stock boom of the 1920s is a riveting chapter in the annals of American enterprise. This Golden age of aviation was a h…