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“American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune” by Greg Steinmetz is a captivating, well-researched biography of the legendary 19th century financier and railroad magnate, who was ...

Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below the ...

He conceived the partner of Jay Gould, the friend of boss Tweed, the manipulator of Erie, and the conspirator Of Black Friday as, essentially, a white-headed boy, a popular product of the ...

Figuring that this would require the government to acquire large quantities of gold, two unscrupulous financiers, James Fisk and Jay Gould, set out to corner the gold market. The contrast in their ...

Meet Jay Gould, a notorious figure on Wall Street in the late 1800s known for his ruthless tactics in the railroad and telegraph industries. Gould and his partner James Fisk orchestrated a scheme ...

Fisk and his partner—Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye—were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew’s grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the ...

"They were true ‘robber barons’ of the Gilded Age," Kuderna said. "The gold circulation in the U.S. was roughly $20 million of gold … so Jay Gould and his friend, Jim Fisk, thought about ...

Back in 1869, two Wall Street financiers named Jay Gould and Jim Fisk hatched a plan to buy huge amounts of gold (which was still the official currency of international trade, but the U.S. used ...