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Ideologies / Capitalist / Hetty Green
Hetty Green — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1834–1916 · United States · Financier

Hetty Green

The Witch of Wall Street

Value investing before its name.

Rooted Capitalist →
Economic+96
SocialistMarket
Governance+4
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
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The shrewdest financier of her age and the richest woman in America, who built a vast fortune through patient, contrarian value investing decades before the term existed.

social

Famously austere and traditional in habit.

economic

Amassed a fortune through shrewd, contrarian, frugal investing.

governance

Pure market operator, indifferent to office or politics.

Notable for
  • Richest woman in Gilded-Age America
  • Contrarian value investing
  • Lent to New York City
value-investingfinancefrugality
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