It is three in the morning. The markets are closed, but the ledger is still open.We are taught that the market is a rational machine. We believe that if we study the charts, analyze the P/E ratios, and follow the trends, we can predict the future. But what about the outliers? What about the assets that defied all logic, not by crashing, but by ruining everyone who touched them? What about the investments that didn't just lose money, but seemed to consume lives?The Curse Index is a chilling, investigative journey into the "sub-basement" of financial history. Jack S. Martin dusts off the forgotten ledgers and whispers of Wall Street to catalogue the assets that came with a price tag no calculator could quantify. This isn't just a history of bad trades; it is a ghost story for the capitalist age.Inside this dossier of haunted capital, you will discover: The Ledger of Whispers: A look into the forgotten archives where the "irrational" stories of the market are buried to protect the myth of stability.The Asset That Bites Back: Case studies of investments that carried a "malediction," destroying portfolios and sanity alike.The Psychology of the Hex: Why rational investors succumb to superstition when the numbers stop making sense.The Sub-Basement Files: Uncovering the "cursed" history of specific commodities, buildings, and tickers that ruined generations of traders.A New Skepticism: How to arm yourself against the "too good to be true" promises of the market by learning to spot the ghosts in the machine.The numbers don't lie, but they don't tell the whole story either. Read this book to find out what is hiding between the rows.