Financial Context

History: John Pierpont Morgan


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Before there was the Federal Reserve there was JP Morgan. Born in 1837, he would become the United State's most powerful banker. From organizing the first billion dollar company to bailing out the federal government, his business management techniques were unprecedented and would be used by future robber barons a century later. 

 

Books discussed: The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow

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Financial ContextBy Nathan Beauvais