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The fire at the wholesale grain exchange consumed three million dollars on a Tuesday in March 1921. Thomas O'Brien was not in the building, but he felt the loss the way you feel rain on a day you left your umbrella at home—an absence that should have been filled but wasn't. His friend Leo was in the building. Leo had been leveraged three to one on a futures contract in winter wheat. The fire...
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