Profiles

Victoria Woodhull September 23, 1838 – June 9th, 1927 Here is Victoria: The First woman to run for President of the United States. The First Woman to open a brokerage firm on Wall Street. A Leader of the Women’s Rights movement. Author. Publisher. Speaker. I had not heard of Victoria Woodhull before I started researching…

1967 was called The Summer of Love. Over the summer months, 100,000 people descended on the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco. Sounds of The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane dominated the music scene. Across the country at the corners of Wall Street and Broadway a very different “happening” was taking place. Muriel Siebert became…

www.carmenreinhart.com My introduction to Carmen Reinhart began in 2009. Her recently published book with fellow economist Kenneth Rogoff “This Time It’s Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” quickly became required reading at work and a best seller. Two years into the financial crises the timing of the book was prescient. The content is based on…

To fully understand the significance of Janet Yellen’s position as head of The Federal Reserve it is worth a moment to understand what the Federal Reserve does. The link below will take you to the home page of the Federal Reserve: https://www.federalreserve.gov/ “The Federal Reserve conducts the nation’s monetary policy by managing the level of…