Ideologies / Capitalist / J. P. Morgan
§ The minds · 1837–1913 · United States · Financier
J. P. Morgan
The banker as central bank
Finance that steadied a nation.
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Governance+8
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The financier so powerful he twice halted national panics from his own office, whose dominance over American capital hastened the creation of the Federal Reserve.
social
Patrician traditionalist of the Gilded Age elite.
economic
Consolidated railroads and industry; personally backstopped the economy.
governance
Wielded private power where the state had none — then ceded it to the Fed.
Notable for
- Halted the Panics of 1893 and 1907
- Formed U.S. Steel
- Dominated American finance
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