Ursa Major: The Rise and Fall of America's First Great BearKenny Polcari
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Length30m
About this audiobook
Lower Manhattan, October 13, 1857. The morning sun struggles through the dense smoke rising from countless chimneys, casting long shadows across the cobblestones of Wall Street. Inside the exchange building, panic spreads like fire through dry timber. Men in dark coats cluster around the trading posts, their voices rising in desperate crescendo. At the center of the chaos, a slight figure in a gray coat stands motionless—Jacob Little, the man they call "Ursa Major," watching his final fortune evaporate before his eyes. This is how legends die: not with a bang, but with the quiet calculation of a man who has seen it all before. For the past twenty-three years, Little has made and lost more money than any man in America. He has invented market manipulation as an art form, survived two panics, and created the template for every great speculator who would follow. Today, the market that made him will finally, permanently, break him.
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
