(Note: This is an excerpt from my upcoming book on the History of Financial Booms and Busts)
A graduate of MIT and the author of some 50 books, Babson was perhaps best known for his investment newsletter, Babson Reports.
He is also known as the founder of Babson College in Boston, which bears his name.
Babson covered the Florida land boom in the Saturday …
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