SEVEN POOR RICH MEN
In 1928 a group of the world’s most successful financiers met at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. The following were present: – the president of the largest utility company – the greatest wheat speculator – the president of the New York Stock Exchange – a member of the President’s Cabinet – the greatest “bear” in Wall Street – the president of the Bank of International Settlements – the head of the world’s greatest monopoly Collectively, these tycoons controlled more wealth than there was in the United States Treasury, and for years newspapers and magazines had been printing their success stories and urging the youth of the nation to follow their examples. Twenty-five years later, this is what had happened to these men: – The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab lived on borrowed money the last five years of his life and died broke. – The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cutten, died abroad, insolvent. – The…
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