# Hetty Green

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Panicking #1122

The most important story in the world is the one you tell yourself. Hetty Green, the richest woman in America during her time, built her fortune by remaining debt, free and buying low during financial panics. The key to success is preparation and understanding that crisis, while feeling unprecedent…

Glitter Guillotine: Year Without A Summer (1816)

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Corsets & Corruption: Hetty Green, The ‘Witch’ of Wall Street

We have officially made it through all 18 of the wonderful series for Historically Unsupervised! Visit my notion page below for more information on today’s episode, The WITCH of Wall Street… not the Wolf 🧙🏼‍♀️🧪 https://app.notion.com/p/Hetty-Green-The-Witch-of-Wall-Street-39e3ed1fde908083bf19ca5c…

History’s Oddest Individuals And Sinister Psychopaths

From bathing in girls’ blood to making homemade conjoined twins, we’ll look at a few famous psychopaths who are truly some of the most terrifying people in the history of the world. Plus, whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history’s oddest individuals put modern-day eccentricities to…

Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]

Hetty Green was the richest woman you've never heard of. In the late 1800s, she built a fortune worth billions today in a world designed to stop her. Women couldn't vote, couldn't own property in most states, and were banned from the New York Stock Exchange floor entirely. She was a force that co…

Scandals of History's Richest Dynasties: Poison, Wills & Duels

Scandals of History’s Richest Dynasties: Poison, Wills & Duels | History for Sleep | Old Money After Dark Behind the tall wrought-iron gates, marble porticos, and candlelit ballrooms of history’s greatest fortunes lies an unspoken truth: immense wealth is almost never clean. For centuries, the ultr…

#375 The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green

Hetty Green bailed out New York City. Her decisions on what interest rates to charge moved markets and were reported in major newspapers. She was a one woman bank and the single biggest individual financier in the world. She took no partners and ran her own money. She built a financial empire of st…

#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)

What I learned from reading The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg Steinmetz. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- [1:55] The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Naval Ravikant an…

#243 Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)

What I learned from reading Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur by Francis Greenburger. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- [1:26]  I can be extremely stubborn when I have a hunch about something. [3:31] I knew all too well that mark…

#103 Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)

What I learned from reading The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach.  ---- [0:10] She was  the smartest woman on Wall Street, a financial genius, a railroad magnate, a real estate mogul, a Gilded Era renegade, a reliable source for city funds. [0:19] “I have had…