EPISODE 415

To Make a Killing: Arthur Cutten's Journey from Market Magician to Crash Catalyst

55 minutes · May 13, 2024

Driven away from family disgrace and toward pursuit of wealth, Arthur Cutten grew fortunes as stocks doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in the Roaring 20’s, even as his market manipulations sowed the seeds for the 1929 crash. Robert Stephens, author of “TO MAKE A KILLING: Arthur Cutten, The Man Who Ruled the Markets,” unpacks the curious life of a secretive speculator who made and lost fortunes from Chicago to New York.

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