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The Story of Jacob Little

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Business and Economics

The Story of Jacob Little

Ursa Major: The Rise and Fall of America's First Great BearKenny Polcari

The Story of Jacob Little

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.

Antihero

Psychological

Thriller

Conspiracy

Battle

Revenge

Journey

Betrayal

Noir

Audiobook details

GenreTrue Crime, Business and Economics

Length30 mins

Publish dateSep 7, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Story of Jacob Little

8The Great Bear Emerges

2Sons of the Revolution

9The Panic Prophet

3The Education of a Bear

10The Fatal Reversal

4The Making of Ursa Major

11Death of Ursa Major

5The Morris Canal Masterstroke

12The Eternal Bear Market

6The Happy Family's Revenge

13Epilogue: The Pattern Endures

7The London Gambit

About the author

Kenny Polcari

Kenny Polcari

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 audiobooks by Kenny Polcari

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