speculator
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Duer was also an inveterate speculator and get-rich-quick schemer: “king of the alley,” as Thomas Jefferson derisively referred External link to Wall Street.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
Railroad magnate and speculator Jay Gould was dubbed “the Mephistopheles of Wall Street” by ministers on the pulpit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
Next came Highway 80 and speculator Bert Vaughn, who built a four-story hotel, bathhouse and a desert view tower to lure San Diego-Arizona drivers off the road.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Fisk, a Wall Street speculator, was fabulously wealthy.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023
Anyway, they all got to the Big House just as the speculator was putting the children on his wagon to carry them off.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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