Similarities between the1920s' economy and today's are "remarkable," suggests journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in 1929 – Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation. The prologue lists examples – the flurry of innovations and products that captured the public imagination; consumer reliance on credit, speculation and gambling in the stock market, and increased concentration of wealth. Otherwise, Sorkin applies laser focus to the period between February 1929 and Jun...