Kennedy, US ambassador to the UK from the late s to mid s. Before he entered the civil service and politics, he had made a name and a fortune for himself as a businessman and investor. On Wall Street he inter alia ran the Libby-Owens-Ford stock pool with a number of Irishmen, a loose association of investors pooling their resources and dedicated to manipulating the hell out of Libby-Owens-Ford stock by deftly using insider information to their advantage. Today he would be deemed a criminal, but at the time his activities on the stock exchange were perfectly legal and he was widely admired for being a wily operator.
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Rightly so , we should add. Kennedy, wily Wall Street operator. As the story goes, Kennedy realized several months before the crash of that he had to get out of the market. What made him realize it was this: In the winter of , he decided to stop to have his shoes shined before going to his office. When the shoe-shine boy had finished, he suddenly offered Kennedy a stock tip, without having been solicited to do so: Kennedy is said to later have told people that he sold off his stock market positions shortly thereafter, as he was thinking: This bull market is over.
A member of the anonymous stock tipsters association at work Photo credit: Of course we are no Joseph Kennedy, but we are continually exposed to market-related information, including assorted spam.
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Keep in mind in this context that after Kennedy received his shoeshine boy warning, the market still rose for another eight months. As we also noted yesterday, the current bubble is not comparable to the mania that culminated in the year At the time, one could actually watch out for very close equivalents to the shoeshine boy, given the huge participation of retail traders in the market. And we have found it — or rather, it actually fell into our lap yesterday, or rather, suddenly appeared in our inbox.
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A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress. Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie.
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