J. P. Morgan

J.

P.

Morgan (1837–1913) was an American financier who dominated banking and corporate finance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His firm organized massive industrial consolidations, including U.S.

Steel and General Electric.

The name now primarily refers to JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's largest financial institutions.

J. P. Morgan underwrote the deal.

financier

stocks

Ownership stakes or inventory

dividends · brokerage · equity · debt · venture · speculation · mergers · acquisitions · reorganization · refinancing

power

tycoon

Dominant industrial leader

influential · dominant · authority · commanding · establishment · dynasty · legacy

gilded-age

robber-baron

Unscrupulous wealthy capitalist

Frick · industrialization · trusts · laissez-faire · patronage · philanthropy · progressivism · transcontinental · railroads · Newport

consolidation

AT&T

Telecommunications conglomerate

acquisition · conglomerate · corporation · antitrust · regulation

banking

deposits

Material settled or stored

underwriting · syndicate · reserve · bailout · liquidity · gold-standard

Opposites
economic philosophy and wealth distribution

J. P. MorganKarl Marx

Vladimir Lenin · Mother Jones · Samuel Gompers · Friedrich Engels · Emma Goldman

attitude toward concentrated power

J. P. MorganTeddy Roosevelt

Twenty-sixth American president

Ida Tarbell · Woodrow Wilson · muckraker · Ralph Nader

relationship to wealth and power

J. P. MorganFrancis of Assisi

Founder of Franciscans

Mother Teresa · Mahatma Gandhi · Henry David Thoreau · Leo Tolstoy · Diogenes

Family

Morgan

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G