100 Minds That Made the Market: (2 Fisher Investments Press)

Table of Contents:
Preface xvii Acknowlegments 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

About the Author :
Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, where his twenty-three-year tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' ninety-year history. Ken is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a multi-product money management firm with over $40 billion under management. His success has ranked him #297 on the 2006 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. He is a regular in the media and has appeared in most major American finance or business periodicals. Fisher also recently authored the New York Times bestseller The Only Three Questions That Count, also published by Wiley.

Review :
“…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)