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\t\t\t\tTales of the stock market crash of 1929 contain images of victims jumping from windows of Wall Street buildings. An eerily sign of the similarities to the current 21st Century crash may be the recent suicide of a despondent broker at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown Securities (Deutsche Bank), who left a note telling clients to contact a lawyer to seek recovery of losses.<\/p>\n

A law suit, with Smith’s suicide letter attached, was soon filed by Bernard and Joan Spain, of Pennsylvania, and Lonnie Duncan, of California, trustee of the Duncan Family Trust. The initial paragraph of the letter states:<\/p>\n

“Since you are reading this, I have just taken my life. It was necessary because the alternatives were totally unpalatable. I consider you a friend first and a client second. That said, I had a fiduciary relationship with you that charged me with putting your interest first. I can say that I always tried to do that. However, some of the investment recommendations that I chose did not work out the way I had anticipated. I regret that very much.”<\/p>\n

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