This Rogues Gallery is where you will find all the players that appear in the book Speaker of the Street. Some are financiers, some are superstars, some are just plain rats. We will be adding to this ongoingly, eventually including characters from today. If they had a tug in the financial world, they will end up here. Have fun!
Henry Ford
Henry Ford came into the world on a farm just outside of Detroit. He got his first job in a…
William Durant
William Durant did not think much of ‘horse-less carriages.’ In fact he made his first million investing in a horse-drawn…
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson toured a film studio because a girlhood crush on matinee idol Francis X Bushman. From that visit she…
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab worked his way up in Steel to become one of the most influential magnates in the world
Jack Morgan
Jack Morgan, Jr had to fill really big shoes – not only was he the son of JP Morgan, but…
Allan A Ryan
Was ever a successful person ever so ill used? Allan A Ryan ran a well-regarded investment house on Wall Street…
Joe Kennedy
Father to John F. and Robert, Joe Kennedy began his banking odyssey as a bank president at the age of…
Jesse Livermore
“I had a hard time convincing my mother that I was not gambling, but making money by figuring.” Jesse Livermore…
JP Morgan
John Pierpont – JP Morgan might be the greatest single financial person in history. By the end of his, life…
Charles Mitchell
Scoundrel or scapegoat? A month after the Crash of ’29, Senator Carter Glass (D-VA) placed the blame for the disaster…