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| ISBN-13: | 9780470139516 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 08/24/2007 |
| Series: | Fisher Investments Press , #2 |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.05(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface xviiAcknowlegments xxi
Foreword xxiii
Introduction 1
CHAPTER ONE The Dinosaurs 7
MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD Out of the Ghetto and into the Limelight 10
NATHAN ROTHSCHILD When Cash Became King—and Credit Became Prime Minister 13
STEPHEN GIRARD The First Richest Man in America Financed Privateers 17
JOHN JACOB ASTOR A One-Man Conglomeration 20
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT A Man Above The Law 23
GEORGE PEABODY A Finder of Financing and Financiers 26
JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN The Last of the Modern Manipulators 29
DANIEL DREW Much “To Drew” About Nothing 32
JAY COOKE Stick To Your Knitting 36
CHAPTER TWO Journalists and Authors 39
CHARLES DOW His Last Name Says It All 41
EDWARD JONES You Can’t Separate Rodgers and Hammerstein 44
THOMAS W. LAWSON “Stock Exchange Gambling is the Hell of it All . . . ” 47
B.C. FORBES He Made Financial Reporting Human 51
EDWIN LEFEVRE You Couldn’t Separate His Facts from His Fiction 53
CLARENCE W. BARRON A Heavyweight Journalist 56
BENJAMIN GRAHAM The Father of Security Analysis 59
ARNOLD BERNHARD The Elegance of Overview on a Single Page 63
LOUIS ENGEL One Mind that Helped Make Millions More 67
CHAPTER THREE Investment Bankers and Brokers 71
AUGUST BELMONT He Represented Europe’s Financial Stake in America 74
EMANUEL LEHMAN AND HIS SON PHILIP Role Models For So ManyWall Street Firms 77
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN History’s Most Powerful Financier 80
JACOB H. SCHIFF The Other Side of the Street 84
GEORGE W. PERKINS He Left the Comfy House of Morgan to Ride a Bull Moose 87
JOHN PIERPONT “JACK” MORGAN, JR. No One Ever Had Bigger Shoes to Fill 90
THOMAS LAMONT The Beacon for a Whole Generation 94
CLARENCE D. DILLON He Challenged Tradition and Symbolized the ChangingWorld 98
CHARLES E. MERRILL The Thundering Herd Runs Amok in the Aisles of the Stock Market’s Supermarket 101
GERALD M. LOEB The Father of Froth—He Knew the Lingo, Not the Logic 104
SIDNEY WEINBERG The Role Model for Modern Investment Bankers 108
CHAPTER FOUR The Innovators 113
ELIAS JACKSON “LUCKY” BALDWIN When You’re Lucky, You Can Go Your OwnWay 116
CHARLES T. YERKES He Turned Politics into Monopolistic Power 120
THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN America’s First Holding Company 123
RUSSELL SAGE A Sage for all Seasons 126
ROGER W. BABSON Innovative Statistician and NewsletterWriter 129
T. ROWE PRICE Widely Known as the Father of Growth Stocks 133
FLOYD B. ODLUM The Original Modern Corporate Raider 137
PAUL CABOT The Father of Modern Investment Management 141
GEORGES DORIOT The Father of Venture Capital 145
ROYAL LITTLE The Father of Conglomerates 149
CHAPTER FIVE Bankers and Central Bankers 153
JOHN LAW The Father of Central BankingWasn’t Very Fatherly 157
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Godfather of American Finance 161
NICHOLAS BIDDLE A Civilized Man Could Not Beat a Buccaneer 164
JAMES STILLMAN Psychic Heads America’s Largest Bank 167
FRANK A. VANDERLIP A Role Model for AnyWall StreetWanna-Be 171
GEORGE F. BAKER Looking Before Leaping Pays off 174
AMADEO P. GIANNINI Taking the Pulse ofWall Street Out of New York 177
PAUL M. WARBURG Founder and Critic of Modern American Central Banking 180
BENJAMIN STRONG Had Strong Been Strong the Economy Might Have Been, Too 183
GEORGE L. HARRISON No, This Isn’t the Guy From the Beatles 187
NATALIE SCHENK LAIMBEER Wall Street’s First Notable Female Professional 190
CHARLES E. MITCHELL The Piston of the Engine that Drove the Roaring 20s 192
ELISHA WALKER America’s Greatest Bank Heist—Almost 195
ALBERT H. WIGGIN Into the Cookie Jar 198
CHAPTER SIX New Deal Reformers 203
E.H.H. SIMMONS One of the Seeds of Too Much Government 206
WINTHROP W. ALDRICH A Blue Blood Who Saw Red 209
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY Founding Chairman of the SEC 212
JAMES M. LANDIS The Cop Who Ended Up in Jail 216
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The Supreme Court Judge onWall Street? 220
CHAPTER SEVEN Crooks, Scandals, and Scalawags 225
CHARLES PONZI The Ponzi Scheme 228
SAMUEL INSULL He “Insullted”Wall Street and Paid the Price 231
IVAR KREUGER He PlayedWith Matches and Got Burned 235
RICHARD WHITNEY Wall Street’s Juiciest Scandal 239
MICHAEL J. MEEHAN The First Guy Nailed by the SEC 243
LOWELL M. BIRRELL The Last of the Great Modern Manipulators 246
WALTER F. TELLIER The King of the Penny Stock Swindles 250
JERRY AND GERALD RE A Few Bad Apples Can Ruin the Whole Barrel 254
CHAPTER EIGHT Technicians, Economists, and Other Costly Experts 257
WILLIAM P. HAMILTON The First Practitioner of Technical Analysis 260
EVANGELINE ADAMS By Watching the Heavens She Became a Star 263
ROBERT RHEA He Transformed Theory into Practice 266
IRVING FISHER TheWorld’s Greatest Economist of the 1920s, or Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Economists—Particularly Great Ones 270
WILLIAM D. GANN Starry-Eyed Traders “Gann” an Angle Via Offbeat Guru 274
WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL Wall Street’s Father of Meaningful Data 278
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES The Exception Proves the Rule I 281
R.N. ELLIOTT Holy Grail or Quack? 285
EDSON GOULD The Exception Proves the Rule II 289
JOHN MAGEE Off the Top of the Charts 292
CHAPTER NINE Successful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators 295
JAY GOULD Blood Drawn and Blood Spit—Gould or Ghoul-ed? 298
“DIAMOND” JIM BRADY Lady LuckWas on His Side—Sometimes 302
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT He Proved His FatherWrong 305
JOHN W. GATES What Can You Say About a Man Nicknamed “Bet-a-Million”? 308
EDWARD HARRIMAN Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick 311
JAMES J. HILL When Opportunity Knocks 314
JAMES R. KEENE Not Good Enough for Gould, But Too Keen for Anyone Else 317
HENRY H. ROGERS Wall Street’s Bluebeard: “Hoist the Jolly Roger!” 320
FISHER BROTHERS Motortown Moguls 323
JOHN J. RASKOB Pioneer of Consumer Finance 327
ARTHUR W. CUTTEN Bully the Price, Then Cut’n Run 330
BERNARD E. “SELL ’EM BEN” SMITH The Rich Chameleon 333
BERNARD BARUCH HeWon and Lost, But Knew When to Quit 337
CHAPTER TEN Unsuccessful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators 341
JACOB LITTLE The First to Do so Much 343
JAMES FISK If You Knew Josie Like He Knew Josie, You’d Be Dead Too! 346
WILLIAM CRAPO DURANT Half Visionary Builder, HalfWild Gambler 349
F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE Burned by Burning the Candle at Both Ends 353
CHARLES W. MORSE Slick and Cold as Ice, Everything He Touched . . . Melted 357
ORIS P. AND MANTIS J. VAN SWEARINGEN He Who Lives by Leverage, Dies by Leverage 360
JESSE L. LIVERMORE The Boy Plunger and Failed Man 364
CHAPTER ELEVEN Miscellaneous, But Not Extraneous 369
HETTY GREEN The Witch’s Brew, or . . . It’s Not Easy Being Green 371
PATRICK BOLOGNA The Easy Money—Isn’t 375
ROBERT R. YOUNG And It’s Never Been the Same Since 378
CYRUS S. EATON Quiet, Flexible, and Rich 381
Conclusion 385
Appendix 387
Index 419