Greg Steinmetz

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Greg Steinmetz
Born
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
  • securities analyst
Education Colgate University (BA)
Medill School of Journalism

Greg Steinmetz is an American journalist, retired securities analyst and author of two financial biographies: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The LIfe and Times of Jacob Fugger and American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune.

Steinmetz was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] He graduated from Colgate University in 1983 [2] with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and German, and earned a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. [1]

Steinmetz spent 15 years working as a journalist for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune , the Houston Chronicle , Newsday , and The Wall Street Journal . [1] [3] He served as the Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal in Berlin and London. [1] In 2023, he retired from a New York money management firm where he was a partner and a member of the board of a mutual fund. [3]

In his 2015 book The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger, he explores how Fugger, a banker from Renaissance, Germany, triggered the Reformation, enabled Charles V to build an empire and created the world's first low-income housing project. His 2022 book, American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune, argues Gould was as rich, ruthless and powerful as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and other Gilded Age contemporaries but has been largely forgotten because he didn't live long enough to build a philanthropic legacy. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

His third book, The President and the Plutocrat: Roosevelt, Mellon and the Triumph of Big Government, will appear in the fall of 2026.

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Muller, Jerry Z. (2 August 2015). "'The Richest Man Who Ever Lived,' by Greg Steinmetz". New York Times Book Review. Vol. 164, no. 56946. p. 15. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Reunion 2023" (PDF). Colgate University. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Goldenballs: Not for nothing was Jacob Fugger known as 'Jacob the Rich'". The Economist. Vol. 416, no. 8949. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Germany's Most Ruthless Banker". The Wall Street Journal. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Lozada, Carlos (6 August 2015). "He Remade Capitalism, Religion and History. You've Probably Never Heard of Him". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ Howell, Martha (7 April 2016). "The Amazing Career of a Pioneer Capitalist". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 63, no. 6. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Sorkin, Amy Davidson (11 September 2015). "How to Finance an Emperor's Election". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  8. ↑ Knee, Jonathan A. (30 July 2015). "Jacob Fugger and the Renaissance Superrich". The New York Times. Vol. 164, no. 56943.
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