The Roaring Twenties, Part 1: The Florida Land Boom, America’s First Property Bubble | Sleepy Stock Market

Fall asleep to the wild story of the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s — America’s first great property bubble, and a dress rehearsal for the crashes that came later.In the space of a few years, swampland and sandbars were flipped for fortunes as Americans dreamed of a tropical paradise. Speculators bought lots they had never seen. Trains arrived overloaded with new buyers. Charles Ponzi himself turned up in Florida with a property scheme of his own. Then hurricanes hit, the frauds were exposed, and the whole market collapsed even before the 1929 crash.This is the story of how Florida became the playground of the American Dream — and America’s first big real-estate nightmare.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#FloridaLandBoom #RealEstateBubble #CharlesPonzi #RoaringTwenties #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #PropertyCrash #StockMarketHistory #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #1920sHistory #USHistory #InvestingHistory0:00 Paradise Promised8:40 Flagler's Iron Dream17:20 The Folly That Won26:00 War Opens the Door34:40 Draining the Everglades43:20 Carl Fisher's Grand Gamble52:00 It's June in Miami1:00:40 Cities Born Overnight1:09:20 The Binder Boys & Paper Fortunes1:18:00 Cracks in Paradise1:26:40 The Bubble Bursts1:32:00 Echoes of the Crash