Robin Wigglesworth

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1,983 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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The Story of Money · The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

And it still is read on Wall Street today, right?

Oh, absolutely.

I've never worked on a Wall Street trading desk myself, but I also have had that book recommended to me.

I I have it here in in my shelf.

I brought it to the forefront just for today.

Uh I've seen people recommend like Alan Greenspan has recommended it.

It just seems to be one of those kind of Wall Street classics or financial classics, even a century after it came out, which is pretty remarkable really.

I actually printed out a picture of him here.

So this is what he looks like, Rob.

It's a picture of of Jesse Livermore in his forties.

Uh he's old now, of course, but he still has a fairly youthful face.

He's clean shaven, which for the era wasn't that usual.

Yeah.

He had a very humble background, didn't he?

Well but his father first dragged him back to the farm, like he was very smart, he went to school, but the father said, Well, you know, that's all good and fine, but we need you working the fields.

So he had to go back home and it was actually his mother that sent him basically kind of let him run away with five bucks to the big city of Boston.

With any money.

Yeah, I mean you know they might end up you know break bad essentially, you know.

You can't really trust them.

His job in Boston when he arrived there with five bucks sewn into his pants by his very kind and forgiving mother was as a board boy.

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