No one can invest for long without having a few mistakes they look back on with regret. Fortunately, most of these are manageable. They don't ruin a person's finances or shake up an entire economy.
For mistakes of that scale, you have to look back on some of the epic fails of investment history. These involve large-scale crazes that attracted huge amounts of money into ventures that now seem clearly doomed to failure.
The history of those investment crazes is somewhat entertaining, but it's also important to learn from them.
After all, horribly misguided investments make for amusing anecdotes when they involve someone else's mistakes — but they can have life-changing consequences when your money is on the line.
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