The evolution of Wall Street.

WE HAVE all heard of Wall Street, J P Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan and the like. But have you ever wondered how it all began? Well, it took two centuries of pioneering, innovation, perspiration, mistakes and scandals relating to some of the most remarkable men and women in the history of business and finance. In his book 100 Minds That Made the Market, Kenneth L Fisher gives compact biographies of 100 people who shaped the market as we know it today. These were tough survivors in a ruthless world where mistakes, some of them mighty costly, forced improvements that has made the market what it is today. Among them, Jesse Livermore, whose larger-than-life …