Robin Wigglesworth
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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I mean, I found this great quote that apparently he gave to his kids.
The only way to get a real education in life is to examine each and every one of your mistakes.
It's the very same thing.
I think what's so compelling about Jesse Livermore is that he does learn from his mistakes.
Today on the story of money.
How do you make a hundred million bucks when marks are crashing and everyone else is losing their shirt and then somehow blow it all?
Well, today we're going to be talking about one of history's most legendary traders, Jesse Livermore.
He made a cool hundred million dollars in the great crash of 1929.
And that's actually one and a half billion dollars in today's money.
Or if you want to scale it relative to the size of the U.S.
economy back then and now, around 30 billion dollars.
One of the biggest trading halls in history.
He was a larger than life character who went from Massachusetts farm boy to champagne soaked parties in New York.
He even helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby.
He's basically the patron saint of day traders everywhere.
But tragically, just like Jay Gatsby, Livermore's rise was matched by a catastrophic fall.
Now, Gillian is away today, sadly, so it's just me this week.
I'm Robin Wigglesworth, and this is the story of money from the Financial Times.
To get into the story of Jesse Livermore, I am joined by a very special guest, Robert Armstrong, who, like Livermore, is a bit of a Renaissance man.
You may know him as the FT's US financial commentator, or as the host of the Unhedged podcast, or as the writer of the Unhedged newsletter.
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