In 1923 a group of men who were considered winners met at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.  Present were eight of the world's most successful financiers.  Like whom?  Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, was there along with the president of the world's largest utility company, Samuel Insull.  Richard Whitney, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, was also there.  Also attending that meeting was Albert Fall, then a member of the U.S. President's cabinet, along with the heads of the world’s largest investment firm, the greatest monopoly in the world, and the Bank of International Settlement, respectively.