美国金融史上的100个著名人物100 Minds that made the market
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作者简介：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.
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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.
目录
Preface
Acknowlegments
Foreword
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: The Dinosaurs
MAYER AMSCHEL ROTHSCHILD: Out of the Ghetto and into the Limelight
NATHAN ROTHSCHILD: When Cash Became King—and Credit Became Prime Minister
STEPHEN GIRARD: The First Richest Man in America Financed Privateers
JOHN JACOB ASTOR: A One-Man Conglomeration
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT: A Man Above The Law
GEORGE PEABODY: A Finder of Financing and Financiers
JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN: The Last of the Modern Manipulators
DANIEL DREW: Much "To Drew" About Nothing
JAY COOKE: Stick To Your Knitting
CHAPTER TWO: Journalists and Authors
CHARLES DOW: His Last Name Says It All
EDWARD JONES: You Can’t Separate Rodgers and Hammerstein
THOMAS W LAWSON: "Stock Exchange Gambling is the Hell of it All "
BC FORBES: He Made Financial Reporting Human
EDWIN LEFEVRE: You Couldn’t Separate His Facts from His Fiction
CLARENCE W BARRON: A Heavyweight Journalist
BENJAMIN GRAHAM: The Father of Security Analysis
ARNOLD BERNHARD: The Elegance of Overview on a Single Page
LOUIS ENGEL: One Mind that Helped Make Millions More
CHAPTER THREE: Investment Bankers and Brokers
AUGUST BELMONT: He Represented Europe’s Financial Stake in America
EMANUEL LEHMAN AND HIS SON PHILIP: Role Models For So Many Wall Street Firms
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN: History’s Most Powerful Financier
JACOB H SCHIFF: The Other Side of the Street
GEORGE W PERKINS: He Left the Comfy House of Morgan to Ride a Bull Moose
JOHN PIERPONT "JACK" MORGAN, JR: No One Ever Had Bigger Shoes to Fill
THOMAS LAMONT: The Beacon for a Whole Generation
CLARENCE D DILLON: He Challenged Tradition and Symbolized the Changing World
CHARLES E MERRILL: The Thundering Herd Runs Amok in the Aisles of the Stock Market’s upermarket
GERALD M LOEB: The Father of Froth—He Knew the Lingo, Not the Logic
SIDNEY WEINBERG: The Role Model for Modern Investment Bankers
CHAPTER FOUR: The Innovators
ELIAS JACKSON "LUCKY" BALDWIN: When You’re Lucky, You Can Go Your Own Way
CHARLES T YERKES: He Turned Politics into Monopolistic Power
THOMAS FORTUNE RYAN: America’s First Holding Company
RUSSELL SAGE: A Sage for all Seasons
ROGER W BABSON: Innovative Statistician and Newsletter Writer
T ROWE PRICE: Widely Known as the Father of Growth Stocks
FLOYD B ODLUM: The Original Modern Corporate Raider
PAUL CABOT: The Father of Modern Investment Management
GEORGES DORIOT: The Father of Venture Capital
ROYAL LITTLE: The Father of Conglomerates
CHAPTER FIVE: Bankers and Central Bankers
JOHN LAW: The Father of Central Banking Wasn’t Very Fatherly
ALEXANDER HAMILTON: The Godfather of American Finance
NICHOLAS BIDDLE: A Civilized Man Could Not Beat a Buccaneer
JAMES STILLMAN: Psychic Heads America’s Largest Bank
FRANK A VANDERLIP: A Role Model for Any Wall StreetWanna-Be
GEORGE F BAKER: Looking Before Leaping Pays Off
AMADEO P GIANNINI: Taking the Pulse of Wall Street Out of New York
PAUL M WARBURG: Founder and Critic of Modern American Central Banking
BENJAMIN STRONG: Had Strong Been Strong the Economy Might Have Been, Too
GEORGE L HARRISON: No, This Isn’t the Guy From the Beatles
NATALIE SCHENK LAIMBEER: Wall Street’s First Notable Female Professional
CHARLES E MITCHELL: The Piston of the Engine that Drove the Roaring 20s
ELISHA WALKER: America’s Greatest Bank Heist—Almost
ALBERT H WIGGIN: Into the Cookie Jar
CHAPTER SIX: New Deal Reformers
EHH SIMMONS: One of the Seeds of Too Much Government
WINTHROP W ALDRICH: A Blue Blood Who Saw Red
JOSEPH P KENNEDY: Founding Chairman of the SEC
JAMES M LANDIS: The Cop Who Ended Up in Jail
WILLIAM O DOUGLAS: The Supreme Court Judge on Wall Street?
CHAPTER SEVEN: Crooks, Scandals, and Scalawags
CHARLES PONZI: The Ponzi Scheme
SAMUEL INSULL: He "Insullted" Wall Street and Paid the Price
IVAR KREUGER: He Played With Matches and Got Burned
RICHARD WHITNEY: Wall Street’s Juiciest Scandal
MICHAEL J MEEHAN: The First Guy Nailed by the SEC
LOWELL M BIRRELL: The Last of the Great Modern Manipulators
WALTER F TELLIER: The King of the Penny Stock Swindles
JERRY AND GERALD RE: A Few Bad Apples Can Ruin the Whole Barrel
CHAPTER EIGHT: Technicians, Economists, and Other Costly Experts
WILLIAM P HAMILTON: The First Practitioner of Technical Analysis
EVANGELINE ADAMS: ByWatching the Heavens She Became a Star
ROBERT RHEA: He Transformed Theory into Practice
IRVING FISHER: The World’s Greatest Economist of the 1920s, or Why You Shouldn’t Listen to conomists—Particularly Great Ones
WILLIAM D GANN: Starry-Eyed Traders"Gann" an Angle Via Offbeat Guru
WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL: Wall Street’s Father of Meaningful Data
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: The Exception Proves the Rule I
RN ELLIOTT: Holy Grail or Quack?
EDSON GOULD: The Exception Proves the Rule II
JOHN MAGEE: Off the Top of the Charts
CHAPTER NINE: Successful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators
JAY GOULD: Blood Drawn and Blood Spit—Gould or Ghoul-ed?
"DIAMOND" JIM BRADY: Lady Luck Was on His Side—Sometimes
WILLIAM H VANDERBILT: He Proved His Father Wrong
JOHN W GATES:What Can You Say About a Man Nicknamed "Bet-a-Million"?
EDWARD HARRIMAN: Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick
JAMES J HILL: When Opportunity Knocks
JAMES R KEENE: Not Good Enough for Gould, But Too Keen for Anyone Else
HENRY H ROGERS: Wall Street’s Bluebeard: "Hoist the Jolly Roger!"
FISHER BROTHERS: Motortown Moguls
JOHN J RASKOB: Pioneer of Consumer Finance
ARTHUR W CUTTEN: Bully the Price, Then Cut’n Run
BERNARD E "SELL ’EM BEN" SMITH: The Rich Chameleon
BERNARD BARUCH: HeWon and Lost, But Knew When to Quit
CHAPTER TEN: Unsuccessful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers, and Operators
JACOB LITTLE: The First to Do so Much
JAMES FISK: If You Knew Josie Like He Knew Josie, You’d Be Dead Too!
WILLIAM CRAPO DURANT: Half Visionary Builder, Half Wild Gambler
F AUGUSTUS HEINZE: Burned by Burning the Candle at Both Ends
CHARLES W MORSE: Slick and Cold as Ice, Everything He Touched Melted
ORIS P AND MANTIS J VAN SWEARINGEN: He Who Lives by Leverage, Dies by Leverage
JESSE L LIVERMORE: The Boy Plunger and Failed Man
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Miscellaneous, But Not Extraneous
HETTY GREEN: TheWitch’s Brew, or It’s Not Easy Being Green
PATRICK BOLOGNA: The Easy Money—Isn’t
ROBERT R YOUNG: And It’s Never Been the Same Since
CYRUS S EATON: Quiet, Flexible, and Rich
Conclusion
Appendix
Index
