Dr. Alan Greenspan: Economist and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Possibly the second most powerful man in the United States, Greenspan has headed the seven-member board since 1987, striving to control inflation and increase consumer confidence in the economy. Biography: Greenspan was born in New York City to a Jewish family in 1926, the
Julian Hart Robinson, Jr. was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1932. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1955 with a degree in business administration. Robertson served as an officer in the Navy and went on to become a stockbroker at Kidder Peabody. He later became the head of the
Firm: Pershing Square Capital ManagementCity: New York2008 Age: 412008 Assets Under Management: $6 Billion William ‘Bill’ Ackman graduated from Harvard University in 1988 and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. Ackman co-founded Gotham Partners in 1992 with David Berkowitz. He went on to founded Pershing Square in 2003. Pershing Square is an
The Stochastic RSI uses RSI values and their relationship over time to determine entry and exit points and to confirm other indicators’ signals. Chart courtesy of Prophet Financial Systems
Bernard Baruch was a highly successful stock market trader and also served as an adviser to American presidents. Bernard Baruch Quotes: “But what actually registers in the stock market’s fluctuations are not the events themselves, but the human reactions to these events. In short, how millions of individual men and women feel these happenings may