When I'm not hosting this podcast, I am writing books, but it is really hard for me to write when I'm at home,

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host.

I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to

understand. It's time for some many rehab.

When the New York Stock Exchange was established, the very first thing it did was shut people out.

Seriously, in 1792, all the reputable stockbrokers in New York got together to sign what they called the Buttonwood

agreement, a truce basically that set out to make investing more trustworthy by keeping

con artists who claimed to be stockbrokers outside the exchange.

At the time, this was a pretty significant problem.

These con artists would basically sell people stocks based on flat-out lies about the investment

opportunities.

And the prevalence of this made Americans skeptical about the whole investing system.

So brokers started to trade behind closed doors of the stock exchange to keep out the scammers. But closed doors didn't shut out only

the bad guys. It shuts out everyone. Since the Buttonwood agreement, retail investors don't have the same access to the stock exchange as brokers do.

Until today.

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