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100 Minds That Made the Market
Ken Fisher (Author)
9780470139516, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 11 September 2007
448 pages, Photos: 99 B&W, 0 Color
22.9 x 15.4 x 3 cm, 0.544 kg
“…trawl through the biographies of those who have made the markets move for some of the right – and wrong – reasons.” (FT's Investment Adviser, Monday 18th February 2008)
Introducing the new Fisher Investment Series, comprised of engaging and informative titles written by renowned money manager and bestselling author Ken Fisher. This series offers essential insights into the worlds of investing and finance.
Over the course of nearly two centuries, the innovations, mistakes, and scandals of different market participants have played an important role in shaping today's financial markets. Now, in 100 Minds That Made the Market, Ken Fisher delivers cameo biographies of these pioneers of American financial history. From Joe Kennedy's "sexcapades" to Jesse Livermore's suicide, this book details the drama, the dirt, and the financial principles of an amazingly inventive group of financial minds. Fisher digs deep to uncover the careers, personal lives, and contributions of these individuals, and leads you through the lessons that can be learned from each one. Here you have 100 of the best teachers -- some you already know, some you will feel you know, and some you may not have previously discovered -- whose experiences will undoubtedly enhance your understanding of the markets.
With a few pages dedicated to each person, 100 Minds That Made the Market quickly captures the essence of the people and ideas that have influenced the evolution of the financial industry.
Preface xvii Acknowlegments xxi Foreword xxiii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE The Dinosaurs 7 MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD NATHAN ROTHSCHILD STEPHEN GIRARD JOHN JACOB ASTOR CORNELIUS VANDERBILT GEORGE PEABODY JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN DANIEL DREW JAY COOKE CHAPTER TWO Journalists and Authors 39 CHARLES DOW EDWARD JONES THOMAS W. LAWSON B.C. FORBES EDWIN LEFEVRE CLARENCE W. BARRON BENJAMIN GRAHAM ARNOLD BERNHARD LOUIS ENGEL CHAPTER THREE Investment Bankers and Brokers 71 AUGUST BELMONT EMANUEL LEHMAN AND HIS SON PHILIP JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN JACOB H. SCHIFF GEORGE W. PERKINS JOHN PIERPONT “JACK” MORGAN, JR. THOMAS LAMONT CLARENCE D. DILLON CHARLES E. MERRILL GERALD M. LOEB SIDNEY WEINBERG CHAPTER FOUR The Innovators 113 ELIAS JACKSON “LUCKY” BALDWIN CHARLES T. YERKES THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN RUSSELL SAGE ROGER W. BABSON T. ROWE PRICE FLOYD B. ODLUM PAUL CABOT GEORGES DORIOT ROYAL LITTLE CHAPTER FIVE Bankers and Central Bankers 153 JOHN LAW ALEXANDER HAMILTON NICHOLAS BIDDLE JAMES STILLMAN FRANK A. VANDERLIP GEORGE F. BAKER AMADEO P. GIANNINI PAUL M. WARBURG BENJAMIN STRONG GEORGE L. HARRISON NATALIE SCHENK LAIMBEER CHARLES E. MITCHELL ELISHA WALKER ALBERT H. WIGGIN CHAPTER SIX New Deal Reformers 203 E.H.H. SIMMONS WINTHROP W. ALDRICH JOSEPH P. KENNEDY JAMES M. LANDIS WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS CHAPTER SEVEN Crooks, Scandals, and Scalawags 225 CHARLES PONZI SAMUEL INSULL IVAR KREUGER RICHARD WHITNEY MICHAEL J. MEEHAN LOWELL M. BIRRELL WALTER F. TELLIER JERRY AND GERALD RE CHAPTER EIGHT Technicians, Economists, and Other Costly Experts 257 WILLIAM P. HAMILTON EVANGELINE ADAMS ROBERT RHEA IRVING FISHER WILLIAM D. GANN WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES R.N. ELLIOTT EDSON GOULD JOHN MAGEE CHAPTER NINE Successful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators 295 JAY GOULD “DIAMOND” JIM BRADY WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT JOHN W. GATES EDWARD HARRIMAN JAMES J. HILL JAMES R. KEENE HENRY H. ROGERS FISHER BROTHERS JOHN J. RASKOB ARTHUR W. CUTTEN BERNARD E. “SELL ’EM BEN” SMITH BERNARD BARUCH CHAPTER TEN Unsuccessful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators 341 JACOB LITTLE JAMES FISK WILLIAM CRAPO DURANT F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE CHARLES W. MORSE ORIS P. AND MANTIS J. VAN SWEARINGEN JESSE L. LIVERMORE CHAPTER ELEVEN Miscellaneous, But Not Extraneous 369 HETTY GREEN PATRICK BOLOGNA ROBERT R. YOUNG CYRUS S. EATON Conclusion 385 Appendix 387 Index 419
Out of the Ghetto and into the Limelight 10
When Cash Became King—and Credit Became Prime Minister 13
The First Richest Man in America Financed Privateers 17
A One-Man Conglomeration 20
A Man Above The Law 23
A Finder of Financing and Financiers 26
The Last of the Modern Manipulators 29
Much “To Drew” About Nothing 32
Stick To Your Knitting 36
His Last Name Says It All 41
You Can’t Separate Rodgers and Hammerstein 44
“Stock Exchange Gambling is the Hell of it All . . . ” 47
He Made Financial Reporting Human 51
You Couldn’t Separate His Facts from His Fiction 53
A Heavyweight Journalist 56
The Father of Security Analysis 59
The Elegance of Overview on a Single Page 63
One Mind that Helped Make Millions More 67
He Represented Europe’s Financial Stake in America 74
Role Models For So ManyWall Street Firms 77
History’s Most Powerful Financier 80
The Other Side of the Street 84
He Left the Comfy House of Morgan to Ride a Bull Moose 87
No One Ever Had Bigger Shoes to Fill 90
The Beacon for a Whole Generation 94
He Challenged Tradition and Symbolized the ChangingWorld 98
The Thundering Herd Runs Amok in the Aisles of the Stock Market’s Supermarket 101
The Father of Froth—He Knew the Lingo, Not the Logic 104
The Role Model for Modern Investment Bankers 108
When You’re Lucky, You Can Go Your OwnWay 116
He Turned Politics into Monopolistic Power 120
America’s First Holding Company 123
A Sage for all Seasons 126
Innovative Statistician and NewsletterWriter 129
Widely Known as the Father of Growth Stocks 133
The Original Modern Corporate Raider 137
The Father of Modern Investment Management 141
The Father of Venture Capital 145
The Father of Conglomerates 149
The Father of Central BankingWasn’t Very Fatherly 157
The Godfather of American Finance 161
A Civilized Man Could Not Beat a Buccaneer 164
Psychic Heads America’s Largest Bank 167
A Role Model for AnyWall StreetWanna-Be 171
Looking Before Leaping Pays off 174
Taking the Pulse ofWall Street Out of New York 177
Founder and Critic of Modern American Central Banking 180
Had Strong Been Strong the Economy Might Have Been, Too 183
No, This Isn’t the Guy From the Beatles 187
Wall Street’s First Notable Female Professional 190
The Piston of the Engine that Drove the Roaring 20s 192
America’s Greatest Bank Heist—Almost 195
Into the Cookie Jar 198
One of the Seeds of Too Much Government 206
A Blue Blood Who Saw Red 209
Founding Chairman of the SEC 212
The Cop Who Ended Up in Jail 216
The Supreme Court Judge onWall Street? 220
The Ponzi Scheme 228
He “Insullted”Wall Street and Paid the Price 231
He PlayedWith Matches and Got Burned 235
Wall Street’s Juiciest Scandal 239
The First Guy Nailed by the SEC 243
The Last of the Great Modern Manipulators 246
The King of the Penny Stock Swindles 250
A Few Bad Apples Can Ruin the Whole Barrel 254
The First Practitioner of Technical Analysis 260
By Watching the Heavens She Became a Star 263
He Transformed Theory into Practice 266
TheWorld’s Greatest Economist of the 1920s, or Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Economists—Particularly Great Ones 270
Starry-Eyed Traders “Gann” an Angle Via Offbeat Guru 274
Wall Street’s Father of Meaningful Data 278
The Exception Proves the Rule I 281
Holy Grail or Quack? 285
The Exception Proves the Rule II 289
Off the Top of the Charts 292
Blood Drawn and Blood Spit—Gould or Ghoul-ed? 298
Lady LuckWas on His Side—Sometimes 302
He Proved His FatherWrong 305
What Can You Say About a Man Nicknamed “Bet-a-Million”? 308
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick 311
When Opportunity Knocks 314
Not Good Enough for Gould, But Too Keen for Anyone Else 317
Wall Street’s Bluebeard: “Hoist the Jolly Roger!” 320
Motortown Moguls 323
Pioneer of Consumer Finance 327
Bully the Price, Then Cut’n Run 330
The Rich Chameleon 333
HeWon and Lost, But Knew When to Quit 337
The First to Do so Much 343
If You Knew Josie Like He Knew Josie, You’d Be Dead Too! 346
Half Visionary Builder, HalfWild Gambler 349
Burned by Burning the Candle at Both Ends 353
Slick and Cold as Ice, Everything He Touched . . . Melted 357
He Who Lives by Leverage, Dies by Leverage 360
The Boy Plunger and Failed Man 364
The Witch’s Brew, or . . . It’s Not Easy Being Green 371
The Easy Money—Isn’t 375
And It’s Never Been the Same Since 378
Quiet, Flexible, and Rich 381
Subject Areas: Finance & accounting [KF]
