Famous Traders & Investors
Carl Icahn is the man who taught American boards to be afraid of their own shareholders. Princeton philosophy in '57, options arbitrage at Dreyfus by '61, his own seat on the Big Board by '68, and…
Markets in Culture
December 11, 1987. The Dow had bottomed five weeks earlier and most of us on the desk were still half-numb, still adding up what…
Market Crises & Events
33.9% in 23 trading days. That’s how fast the S&P 500 fell from its February 19, 2020 record high to its March 23 low…
Market Crises & Events
I was 17 when GameStop happened. Watching it on a Discord server full of people my age who had never owned a stock before,…
Famous Traders & Investors
Carl Icahn is the man who taught American boards to be afraid of their own shareholders. Princeton philosophy in '57, options arbitrage at Dreyfus…
Famous Traders & Investors
Charlie Munger is usually described as Warren Buffett’s right hand at Berkshire Hathaway, which is accurate as a job title and incomplete as a…
Market Crises & Events
March 27, 1980. I was nineteen, a runner at Dean Witter, and I didn't have a silver position to lose. A fellow named Bobby…
Long biographies of the people who built the playbook. From Livermore in the bucket shops of 1892 to Burry shorting subprime in 2007.
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The crashes, panics, and bubbles that shaped how markets are regulated. From the Tulip Mania of 1637 to the GameStop short squeeze of 2021.
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