Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]

It's nineteen oh seven and Wall Street is in complete meltdown. Banks are failing, millionaires are jumping from windows, and even JP Morgan himself is scrambling to save the entire financial system. But while the most powerful men in America are panicking, there's one person sitting calmly at a simple desk in a bank lobby surrounded by stacks of cash. She's wearing the same black dress she's worn for years, and she's about to single handedly prevent the collapse of the American economy. Her name? Hetty Green.

And she's about to lend over six million dollars to save banks, businesses, and lives. All while charging fair interest rates when she could have demanded. Anything she wanted. You've probably never heard of her. And that's because history buried the story of America's first female Wall Street Titan, the woman who turned a childhood of rejection

into a financial empire that would make even today's billionaires jealous. She bought entire towns face down a railroad baron with a loaded gun and accumulated wealth, using strategies so ahead of their time that Warren Buffett is still using them today. So why don't we know her name? Because Hetty Green committed the ultimate sin in the Gilded Age. She was a woman who refused to apologize for being smarter than every man in the room.

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