jacob little march march early 19th century wall street investor greatest history stock market known time great bear wall street little born massachusetts moved new_york_city opened establishment finally market little wealth bearing stocks turns short selling companies markets extract profits short sellers great financial little amassed enormous fortune richest men america leading wall street 1830s 1840s speculative activities irritated peers earned little lost remade legendary fortune multiple times losing good great owed enormous debts generous collected deathbed little known stock market time quickly forgotten death today relegated relative obscurity early life background known little investment activities adult life little known early years born massachusetts march son successful local origin little exhibited strong understanding money financial markets early age emigrated new_york_city clerk store highly successful merchant politically connected founding member democratic_party political machine little spent years moving start business length employment bought small office basement wall street building served base operations years moving old office new basement old exchange building opened start investment career market operations little entered stock market time banking stock coming progressing supportive activity profit motivated business right large growth came solid investors interested business ventures funded speculative dealers manipulate prices holdings eve american civil war hundreds speculative firms wall street bears routinely drive prices artificially high low respectively ways angered legitimate little earliest successful practitioners market manipulation making fortune short sales short sellers sell stocks traders contract purchase later date betting market value future pocket difference trade rules changed short selling complicated today execute opposite maneuver corner market buying bonds particular company sector price profit expense short sales based stocks highly ambitious eyes set beginning little commonly spent hours day working maneuvers office evening engaged currency speculation great coup successfully bought pushed stock price today share december today share january point little chose collect debts theoretically asked total control company little chose force issue feared resulting market potentially cause collapse repeated feat september year stocks construction approximately shares sold short time shares issued little prospered immensely time little richest men america millions dollars security holdings short sales market volume napoleon board noted personally retired manner business correspondence major economic voices nation devout member trader instance promised group traders sell holdings worcester railroad price dollars share promptly soon noticed price slipping earning condemnation lasting outrage traders known practiced judgement dealings great financial little able predict campaign resultant panic able protect interests financial short selling holdings lucrative operation earned lasting title great bear wall street little stated business bearing stock tradition bear market little distinguished large early investments railroad construction industry regarded suspicion activities paid eventually earning new title railroad king wealth little little loved peers secretly believed lacking personal integrity manipulative figure built fortune speculation market manipulation crushed traders little known gorge digest stock day weight bulk body certificates investors followed actions closely caught rich ruined sway influence market enormous nearly came end little particularly favored stocks trapped company stock hostile syndicate rival calling happy family way countless traders led dramatic showdown little involved time making good purchase promise required transaction associated clerk office day gathered clerk office likelihood beaten little game traders know little purchased bonds company sale london years little entered premises apparently carrying bag revealed bonds little converted stocks little syndicate came hundreds thousands dollars ahead maneuver attempted action like intensely unpopular investors entry times regaining following event rule limit length option contracts days prevent similar coup short troubles little worth million equivalent million today fortunes reversed year attempted failed corner worcester railroad pay thousands inflated shares bid price losing million dollars process sum time fortune common stock market little exception going bankrupt times course career fall walking friend union square site prestigious expensive housing city world remarked lost money today buy square yes half people instances little surely showed strength character falls fortune little able rebuild commercial empire pay old contracts leading remark jacob little suspended papers better sic checks men nonetheless length little finally failed completely investor time long possessing huge amounts stock bought margin loan stock prices fell little forced bankruptcy margin calls demanding fall value stocks time bouncing little lost held confidence wall street needed obtain backing little reign wall street giant richest men country later life legacy core little away fortune prepare rainy day money stock market immediately invested panic destroyed investment fortune little left live rest life wing little able small trading returns market later years magnitude fall target peers died broken man little died march funeral held march new_york included reverend taylor funeral account early world finance years wall street knew little personally penned little generous liberal fault brother experienced remarkable great memory easily remember operations course day making note mistake stock market historian said nervous personally attended detail kind honorable genius market maneuvers having fallen bankruptcy times little particularly sensitive debts held fell hard times came time death little owed millions dollars successfully collected friends family modest sum given size wealth opinion held investors day reflection coup published new_york_times accused baron drove wall street earlier days obedience method severe man stood way man got hurt naturally street dead set schemes laid simply end combinations formed dissolved crack little whip little gain lose fortune stock market pioneering rely ability predict market fluctuations inform instead bidding today considered insider information great bear rapid rise speculation market manipulation virtually unknown stock market nerve financial necessary profit risky endeavors market historians consider modern stock market ability gain lose fortunes day day basis possibilities speculation death life investors tried imitate success little success victory scheme market activities general inspired similar plots years industrialist successfully way little thirty years earlier fell corner trap formed later war bonds novelty nonetheless wealth innovation little end ensured quickly forgotten time published classic stock operator virtually unknown demonstrate details asking seasoned members heard knowing existence having heard provided fact saying happened jacob happens thousands year difference degree memorable stock change king today little relegated obscurity survives histories stock market
Jacob Little