| While the Dow soars above historic highs,
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| | debt and interest and more. When prices
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| oil and housing prices are falling. Are
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| | began to drop, people realized they would
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| these sectoral adjustments or indications
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| | not only fail to make money but they
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| of a radical shift in the economy? Could
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| | might not be able to cover the debt
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| we see another stock market crash like
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| | either and so panicked. Banks had lent
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| The Wall Street Crash Of 1929? Why are
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| | heavily to fund this share-buying spree
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| investors getting jittery?The Wall Street
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| | and when the market collapsed they found
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| Crash, and the subsequent Great
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| | themselves saddled with debt, which
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| Depression of the 1930s, are well known
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| | caused many banks to fail. Millions of
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| phrases but few people know what really
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| | people lost their savings and,
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| happened and understand the dynamics that
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| | disastrously for the economy, businesses
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| led to the crash.
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| | lost their credit lines and were forced
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| The Wall Street Crash, also called the
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| | to close, which caused massive
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| 'Great Crash,' was a stock-market price
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| | unemployment. The middle class now found
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| collapse that started on October 24
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| | themselves without savings and, in many
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| ("Black Thursday") and continued through
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| | cases, work.
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| October 29, 1929 ("Black Tuesday"), when
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| | The over-reaction of the Hoover
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| share prices on the New York Stock
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| | administration to the Wall Street Crash
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| Exchange (NYSE) collapsed.The Dow Jones
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| | probably exacerbated the situation and
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| Industrial Average, recovered early in
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| | the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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| 1930 only to decline until finally
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| | Act caused more harm than the crash
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| bottoming out in the bear market in 1932.
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| | itself.Could it happen again?Investors
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| The market did not surpass pre-1929
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| | are continually told "no" and that there
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| levels until 1955.
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| | are things are in place to stop the sort
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| The Dow had reached a high of 381.17 on
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| | of crash that happened in 1929. But
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| September 3, 1929. Three days later, on
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| | evidence seems to imply otherwise.To
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| Black Thursday, the stock market suffered
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| | prevent panics such as 1929, buying on
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| its first crash. A then-record 13 million
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| | speculation was made illegal. Stock
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| shares were traded that day. More
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| | markets instituted measures to
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| investors were involved in the stock
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| | temporarily suspend trading in the event
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| market than ever before and many had
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| | of rapid declines.The US Glass-Steagall
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| borrowed money to invest and those
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| | Act of 1933, mandated a separation
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| over-leveraged investors were jittery.
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| | between commercial banks, which take
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| The crash began on the Thursday when
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| | deposits and extend loans, and investment
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| those investors panicked and rushed to
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| | banks, which underwrite, issue, and
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| sell their shares.At 1:00pm on Black
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| | distribute stocks, bonds, and other
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| Thursday, several leading Wall Street
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| | securities.For decades, these rules
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| bankers met to find a solution to the
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| | seemed to protect the markets and no more
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| panic and chaos that was unfolding on the
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| | collapses occurred. Invested slowly came
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| trading floor. The group included the
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| | back to the market. But when the Regan
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| heads of Morgan, Chase National and
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| | administration relaxed some of the
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| National City Banks and they bid on large
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| | regulations managing brokerages in the
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| blocks of "blue-chip" stocks to show
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| | early 1980s, the stock market began to
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| confidence in the market. The tactic
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| | pick up.The crash of Monday, October 19,
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| succeeded in halting the slide that day
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| | 1987 was even more severe than the Crash
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| and the panic abated. The markets were
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| | of 1929. On Black Monday of 1987, the Dow
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| calmer on the Friday.Over the weekend,
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| | Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%.
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| however, newspapers published dire and
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| | While it was the largest single day drop
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| sensational stories about the fragility
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| | in history, it did not precipitate a
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| of the market. By Monday, agitated
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| | recession or depression. Other economic
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| investors panicked by the press, were
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| | indicators were on the upswing and the
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| champing at the bit to liquidate. When
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| | crash seemed to only affect the larger
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| the markets opened on Monday morning,
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| | investors.The late 1990s also saw a
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| investors decided to get out of the
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| | period of "irrational exuberance" as
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| market en mass and the slide resumed with
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| | billions were invested in speculative
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| a record 13% loss in the Dow for the day.
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| | 'dot-com' businesses. The 'dot-com boom'
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| Many wealthy tycoons joined with members
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| | will be remembered for the founding
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| of the Rockefeller family and other
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| | spectacular failures of new
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| financial giants to buy large quantities
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| | Internet-based companies that eshewed
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| of stocks in order to demonstrate
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| | standard business models, and focused on
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| confidence in the market on the Monday
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| | increasing market share at the expense of
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| but this time the tactic failed. Tuesday
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| | the bottom line and launched IPOs based
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| saw more the same another 15 million
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| | on ideas rather than demonstrated
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| shares were traded and the market
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| | businesses. Most major investors such as
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| bottomed out.So why did the crash happen
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| | Warren Buffett had not jumped on the band
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| and what can today's investors learn?One
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| | wagon and when the collapse came in 2000
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| of the great myths about the great crash
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| | were not affected. The same can not be
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| was that it precipitated the Great
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| | said for the majority of passive
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| Depression. Financial analysts and
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| | investors who saw the value of their
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| historians disagree on how much effect
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| | mutual funds plummet.
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| the crash had on the looming Great
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| | That crash followed by drastic US
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| Depression of the 30s.The economy was
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| | deficits implemented by President George
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| already collapsing prior to the Wall
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| | W Bush, a collapse in Asian real estate
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| Street disaster and poor people, who
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| | markets and the September 11 attacks
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| would be the most affected by the
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| | marked the beginning rather lengthy
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| Depression, were not investing in the
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| | recession in Western nations.So what of
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| stock market. For them, poor farming
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| | today? Even more mutual funds pumping
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| conditions and the great dust bowl would
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| | their value on speculative stocks, an
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| be far more significant to their plight.
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| | overpriced bubble market with millions of
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| The image of the Wall Street tycoon
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| | people involved, many of whom are seeing
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| leaping through their skyscraper windows
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| | their other investment, their houses,
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| is a myth. Most survived the crash with
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| | sinking in value, and all with access to
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| their mansions intact. They lost large
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| | computers and brokerages that can sell
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| amounts of paper wealth but they had
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| | their stocks quickly makes for a very
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| sufficient funds to survive and then
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| | volatile situation. The next crash will
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| prosper in the low market.For the middle
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| | probably indicate more than any other
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| class it was a different story.
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| | whether investors are more sophisticated
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| Throughout the 1920s the market had been
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| | today and will avoid repeating 1929 style
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| doing so well that many ordinary
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| | panic collapse or will precipitate a much
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| Americans were investing. More people
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| | larger, quicker and significant exit from
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| were investing although many could not
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| | the market.Jay Northco is the Editor of
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| afford to do so. People were investing on
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| | the website that pits Wall Street Guru
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| speculation-borrowing from banks, buying
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| | Jim Cramer against a stock picking monkey
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| stocks with an eye to selling them in the
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| | to see who can make the better stock
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| future for a profit that would cover the
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| | picks.
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