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Bookmark or Share- Jay Gould - Wikipedia1882 cartoon depicting Wall Street as "Jay Gould's Private Bowling Alley" After being forced out of the Erie Railroad, Gould started to build up a system of railroads in the Midwest and West. He took control of the Union Pacific in 1873, after its stock had been depressed by the Panic of 1873 , and he built a viable railroad that depended on ...
- Book review of American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s ...Jason “Jay” Gould (1836-1892) may have been the most astute analyst of stock markets in American history. He was also a brilliant strategist in any scrap over money.
- Gould, Jay - Encyclopedia.comAmerican financier and railroad builder Jay Gould (1836-1892) began as an unprincipled stock manipulator and became one of the most acute businessmen in America's age of industrial capitalism. He operated in an era when speculative capital could play a constructive role.
- Why Jay Gould was among the most hated men in Gilded Age AmericaJay Gould’s Machiavellian moves led enraged investors to not only punch him at Delmonico’s, but throw him down a set of Broadway stairs, and threaten him with a pistol.
- Biography of Jay Gould, Notorious Robber Baron - ThoughtCoJay Gould (born Jason Gould; May 27, 1836–December 2, 1892) was a businessman who came to personify the robber baron in the late 19th century. Over the course of his career, Gould made and lost several fortunes as a railroad executive, financier, and speculator.
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