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Podcast: Inside the ICE House
Episode: AMERICAN RASCAL Author Greg Steinmetz Returns Readers to Jay Gouldās Wall Street
Description: During the reign of Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan, no one navigated markets more successfully, or ruthlessly, than shadowy Jay Gould. In āAMERICAN RASCAL: How Jay Gould Built Wall Streetās Biggest Fortuneā Author Greg Steinmetz revisits the often-overlooked robber baron. Greg traces Gouldās 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 isnāt the caricature that appears inĀ Thomas NastāsĀ cartoons, but rather a complex figure during a time when insider trading was legal, and only the crooked survived. Ā Inside the ICE...