Robin Wigglesworth

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

Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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

He suspected that the stock had been kind of pumped up by some of these uh these stock operators, the pools were they weren't they called?

Yeah.

No, I mean this is the early nineteen hundreds, right?

There is no SEC, there is no financial watchdog.

The the markets are proper Wild West at this point.

Well also in favour of this not being luck, uh just a year afterwards, Jesse Livermore does have probably one of his most famous episodes, right?

So uh it you know the the San Francisco earthquake triggered a uh a bit of a a market quake as well.

But a year later there was a massive one.

And yes I know Livermore had got turned bullish again uh before nineteen oh seven, but

1907, the financial panic of 1907, that's a big one.

It's one of the biggest financial crises in history, right?

Can you explain briefly what?

Yeah, I mean there's no central bank that can deliver a surplus cash.

There is no deposit insurance.

So obviously everybody has an incentive to yak their money out as quickly as possible and then you know, frankly, it's just a massive banking calamity.

I think hundreds of banks failed.

And the the m m the market drops something like fifty percent, right?

But so what did Jesse Livermore do before the crash and and how did he respond and to to the event itself?

When the House of

Well, also probably knowing he's now playing as Sean Papoint Morgan made him sort of change his mind and he starts playing long as well.

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