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Wall Street is an institution that some, especially today, seem to take for granted. It didn't appear one day from some biblical fairy tale. Instead, Wall Street exists as it does because of nearly two centuries of pioneering, innovation, perspiration, mistakes and scandals. Throughout Wall Street's evolution, survival of the fittest dicated which innovations would be incorporated and which mistakes would be corrected - and it was these inprovements that made the market the wonderful institution so many now take for granted.

But it was the individuals behind the improvements who drove the making of the market. This book presents 100 such people, each of whom contributed something - a lesson, an innovation, or a scam. Their minds made the innovations and their impact made the market what it is, so ultimately and simply, it was their minds that made the market - hence the book's title.

Looking back on their lives in invaluable for anyone who never stopped to think how the market came about and essential for everyone connected with today's market and tomorrow's future. As the saying goes, "Those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them." Here you have 100 of the best teachers available to save you from learning the hard way the lessons their lives so vividly portray. In reading 100 Minds That Made the Market, you will find the story behind Wall Street's gradual formation as fascinating and engrossing as the market itself.

Contents:

Introduction.
Chapter One.
The Dinosaurs.
Out of the Ghetto and into the Limelight.
When Cash Became King--and Credit Became Prime Minister.
The First Richest Man in America Financed Privateers.
A One-Man Conglomeration.
A Man Above The Law.
A Finder of Financing and Financiers.
The Last of the Modern Manipulators.
Much "To Drew" About Nothing.
Stick To Your Knitting.
Chapter Two.
Journalists and Authors.
His Last Name Says It All.
You Can't Separate Rodgers and Hammerstein.
"Stock Exchange Gambling is the Hell of it All . . .".
He Made Financial Reporting Human.
You Couldn't Separate His Facts from His Fiction.
A Heavyweight Journalist.
The Father of Security Analysis.
The Elegance of Overview on a Single Page.
One Mind that Helped Make Millions More.
Chapter Three.
Investment Bankers and Brokers.
He Represented Europe's Financial Stake in America.
Role Models For So Many Wall Street Firms.
History's Most Powerful Financier.
The Other Side of the Street.
He Left the Comfy House of Morgan to Ride a Bull Moose.
No One Ever Had Bigger Shoes to Fill.
The Beacon for a Whole Generation.
He Challenged Tradition and Symbolized the Changing World.
The Thundering Herd Runs Amok in the Aisles of the Stock.
Market's Supermarket.
The Father of Froth-He Knew the Lingo, Not the Logic.
The Role Model for Modern Investment Bankers.
Chapter Four.
The Innovators.
When You're Lucky, You Can Go Your Own Way.
He Turned Politics into Monopolistic Power.
America'sFirst Holding Company.
P1: OTE/PGN P2: OTE.
A Sage for all Seasons.
Innovative Statistician and Newsletter Writer.
Widely Known as the Father of Growth Stocks.
The Original Modern Corporate Raider.
The Father of Modern Investment Management.
The Father of Venture Capital.
The Father of Conglomerates.
Chapter Five.
Bankers and Central Bankers.
The Father of Central Banking wasn't Very Fatherly.
The Godfather of American Finance.
A Civilized Man Could Not Beat a Buccaneer.
Psychic Heads America's Largest Bank.
A Role Model for Any Wall Street Wanna-Be.
Looking Before Leaping Pays off.
Taking the Pulse of Wall Street Out of New York.
Founder and Critic of Modern American Central Banking.
Had Strong Been Strong the Economy Might Have Been, Too.
No, This Isn't the Guy From the Beatles.
Wall Street's First Notable Female Professional.
The Piston of the Engine that Drove the Roaring '20s.
America's Greatest Bank Heist--Almost.
Into the Cookie Jar.
Chapter Six.
New Deal Reformers.
One of the Seeds of Too Much Government.
A Blue-Blood Who Saw Red.
Founding Chairman of the SEC.
The Cop Who Ended Up in Jail.
William O. Douglas-The Supreme Court Judge on Wall Street?
Chapter Seven.
Crooks, Scandals and Scalawags.
The Ponzi Scheme.
He "Insullted" Wall Street and Paid the Price.
He Played With Matches and Got Burned.
Wall Street's Juiciest Scandal.
The First Guy Nailed by the SEC.
The Last of the Great Modern Manipulators.
The King of the Penny Stock Swindles.
A Few Bad Apples Can Ruin the Whole Barrel.
Chapter Eight.
Technicians, Economists and other Costly Experts.
The First Practitioner of Technical Analysis.
By Watching the Heavens She Became a Star.
He Transformed Theory into Practice.
The World's Greatest Economist of the 1920s, or Why You.
Shouldn't Listen to Economists--Particularly Great Ones.
Starry-eyed Traders "Gann" an Angle Via Offbeat Guru.
Wall Street's Father of Meaningful Data.
The Exception Proves the Rule I.
Holy Grail or Quack?
The Exception Proves the Rule II.
Off the Top of the Charts.
Chapter Nine.
Successful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers and Operators.
Blood Drawn and Blood Spit--Gould or Ghoul-ed?
Lady Luck Was on His Side--Sometimes.
He Proved His Father Wrong.
What Can You Say About a Man Nicknamed "Bet-a-Million"?
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick.
When Opportunity Knocks.
Not Good Enough for Gould, But Too Keen for Anyone Else.
Wall Street's Blue Beard: "Hoist the Jolly Roger!".
Motor town Moguls.
Pioneer of Consumer Finance.
Bully the Price, Then Cut'n Run.
The Rich Chameleon.
He Won and Lost, But Knew When to Quit.
Chapter Ten.
Unsuccessful Speculators, Wheeler-Dealers and Operators.
The First to do so Much.
If You Knew Josie Like He Knew Josie, You'd Be Dead Too!
Half Visionary Builder, Half Wild Gambler.
Burned by Burning the Candle at Both Ends.
Slick and Cold as Ice, Everything He Touched . . . Melted.
He Who Lives by Leverage, Dies by Leverage.
The Boy Plunger and Failed Man.
Chapter Eleven.
Miscellaneous, But Not Extraneous.
The Witch's Brew, or . . . It's Not Easy Being Green.
The Easy Money--Isn't.
And It's Never Been the Same Since.
Quiet, Flexible and Rich.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Index.