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

So we are talking about the legendary trader, Jesse Livermore, today.

And we're going to be skipping forward to the 1920s, the roaring 20s, because at this point, Jesse Livermore is in his 40s and has achieved fame beyond anything you'd ever imagine.

He's a glamour figure.

He is in the tabloids.

He is a giant on Wall Street and he's

Massively wealthy, of course.

He's kind of become the embodiment of this jazz age sleaze of uber wealth and glamour and just sums up the twenties really.

Uh but he's still very private.

He's still shrouded in a bit of mystery and suspicion.

Uh Rob, I am curious, do we know roughly how wealthy he was in the late twenties?

Before the great crash of twenty nine,

I mean he even filed for bankruptcy at one point in nineteen fifteen after he had all accumulated all these massive debts.

I have heard that nobody on Wall Street has made and lost quite so many fortunes so many times in the history of Wall Street.

I mean, obviously we we all know stories of people that made it and then lost it all or lost it all and then made it back, but you know, i it's just an incredible roller coaster career really.

Chateau Wigglesworth every Thursday, really.

Yeah.

But this showgirl, these were for fame she was a famous showgirl.

This was the the Zigfield follies.

What were the Zinkfield follies, really?

I mean it

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