Jay Gould made himself rich and his enemies furious on Gilded Age Wall Street, acquiring a railroad fortune while gaining a reputation for backstabbing. NY Post photo composite Born in poverty in ...

“My mother kept everything,” Jon’s twin brother, Jay Gould, told The Post ... often mean, takes on the rich and famous. Poor Liz Taylor was described as looking “like a — belly button”!) ...

Jay Gould and Jim Fisk were as talented a partnership ... The farmers of the West are pretty rich and they sell very reluctantly unless they get a profit upon their products.

Jason “Jay” Gould (1836-1892) may have been the most astute analyst of stock markets in American history. He was also a brilliant strategist in any scrap over money. For a good example of ...

Thomas Scott and Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould dominated the railroads. John D. Rockefeller dominated oil. Andrew Carnegie dominated steel. J. P. Morgan dominated finance. We can see echoes ...