Mises Daily
Author:
James Grant
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[From Money Magazine , August 1999] In her superb new biography of J.P. Morgan , Jean Strouse quotes a few lines written by the historian Henry Adams in 1902: “Pierpont Morgan...is carrying loads that stagger the strongest nerves. Everyone asks what would happen if some morning he woke up dead.” Almost a century later, the men and women at the top