Episode 316: AMERICAN RASCAL Author Greg Steinmetz Returns Readers to Jay Gould’s Wall Street
During the reign of Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan, no one navigated markets more successfully, or ruthlessly, than shadowy Jay Gould. In “AMERICAN RASCAL: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune” Author Greg Steinmetz revisits the often-overlooked robber baron. Greg traces Gould’s rise from an enterprising youth to owning 15% of all the railroads in the United States, and fortunes won and lost along the way. He shares how Gould isn’t the caricature that appears in Thomas Nast’s cartoons, but rather a complex figure during a time when insider trading was legal, and only the…
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