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Jason Cooke (August 10, 1821 – February 16, 1905) was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. He is generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm.
== Early life ==
Cooke was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke and Martha Carswell Cooke.
Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers
Every now and then a new technology comes along that changes everything – electricity, computers, potentially AI. In mid-19th-century America, that technology was the steam locomotive. It knitted the US economy together, driving the nation’s industrialisation during the Gilded Age. But along the wa…
Tyler Goodspeed on Challenging the Way Economists Look at Recessions
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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Rothbard’s opening thesis: commercial bankers, engaged in fractional reserve credit, always teeter toward bankruptcy and reach for bailout, while investment bankers underwrite government bonds and profit from deficits. He traces the first great American investment bank—Jay Cooke’s—to a monopoly on …
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Rothbard’s opening thesis: commercial bankers, engaged in fractional reserve credit, always teeter toward bankruptcy and reach for bailout, while investment bankers underwrite government bonds and profit from deficits. He traces the first great American investment bank—Jay Cooke’s—to a monopoly on …
Episode 5 - The Story of Money
What actually is money? This new podcast from the Financial Times takes a historical view of this question which is crucial to understanding human civilisation and the world we live in today.
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