Gerald Martin Loeb (July 24, 1899 – April 13, 1974) was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co., a renowned Wall Street trading and brokerage firm.

Loeb promoted a view of the market as too risky to hold stocks for the long term, in contrast to well-known value investors.

[12] Then, a week later on the 4th of July, his father was killed in a train collision in downtown Oakland while returning from a day trip to Santa Cruz to make arrangements for an upcoming family vacation there.

[18] Although he had largely avoided personal losses, the Wall Street crash of 1929 greatly affected Loeb's investing style, making him skeptical of holding stocks for the long term.

Loeb offered a contrarian investing viewpoint, in books and columns in Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, and Investor Magazine.

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