7 Short Stories About Our Country's First Trading PitKenny Polcari
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Length34m
About this audiobook
"Smoke and the Gold Room" is a vivid audio collection of 7 short stories about America’s first trading pit. Each tale captures a pivotal moment or figure: a British banker stunned by the abstract trades of 1866; Salmon Chase’s 1861 creation of the Greenback to save the Union; outcast traders in the 1862 “Coal Hole” birthing modern finance; the Gold Room’s real-time pricing of Civil War battles; conservative bankers abandoning the gold standard; Jay Cooke selling bonds to farmers; and the gritty room where human emotion and market precision shaped a nation’s fate. Raw, chaotic, and patriotic, these stories reveal the roots of American capitalism.
Kenny Polcari is the host of Trader Talk on Yahoo Finance, and a lifelong lover of the markets, among the last of the NYSE floor traders. View all by Kenny Polcari
