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Yesterday's shipping service on Izabella Kaminska's thinking close journalism in addition to intelligence in addition to crypto in addition to materials reminded me of 1 of my all-time favorite posts.

It has a stock broker-turned-muckraker who couldn't quite compass upwards his promoter ways,

Although Tom Lawson wasn't business office of the McClure's Magazine crew: Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, William Allen White et al, Lawson's exposure of the doings of the Boston copper crowd inward his mass Boston Fed: In Which H5N1 Copper Speculator's Attempted Corner Causes H5N1 Stock Market Crash"

In improver nosotros accept a God-awful-ugly fossil oil tanker named for said stock promoter which, simply of course, created the world's origin major marine fossil oil spill.

Oh, in addition to it begins amongst the provide of Ms. Kaminska after an before absence, triggering a reminiscence.

Here's
Oil Tankers in addition to Interest Rates in addition to Scallywags in addition to Time 
Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016
 
Izabella is back.
We didn't encounter anything past times her on Mon or Tuesday simply yesterday she was to hold upwards institute hanging out at the intersection of physical in addition to financial.

She was looking at 1 aspect of fourth dimension inward the commodities biz (here's another) dropped a "shedload" on unsuspecting reader in addition to asked the query that's been on everyone's collective mind:
"where the hell has the floating contango merchandise been?!"
However, before nosotros bring together her here's the origin affair that came to heed when I saw her headline, "Ida M. Tarbell: 'John D. Rockefeller: H5N1 Character Study'" inward business office because I wanted a searchable link to the Tarbell collection at Allegheny college in addition to partly because she described John D.'s grandfather, Godfrey every bit "a shiftless tippler, stunted inward stature in addition to hateful inward spirit".

In 2016, it was Ida's buddy Lincoln Steffens inward "Goldman Sachs: Death Of Capitalism Averted, Time For Working Schlubs to Partaay!", 1 time again non for the locomote he was most famous for, inward Steffens' example his Shame of the Cities (St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh et al) simply because of his famously incorrect controversy close Soviet Russian Federation inward a missive of the alphabet dated April 3, 1919: “I accept seen the hereafter in addition to it works.”.

It didn't.

In 2015 in that place was Jacob Riis because I was reminded of 1 of the photographs from "How the Other Half Lives: Studies amidst the Tenements of New York":
Jacob Riis Lives! "San Francisco Housing Bubble Goes Subterranean: $500/Month To Live In H5N1 Crawlspace"
 
And along the agency Theodore Dreiser got a major link (possibly 1 of the best concern novels ever) inward "Switzerland Begins Two-Year Trial of Driverless Buses (plus money, art, glory in addition to sex)"

So yes, to a greater extent than than wary reader mightiness accept anticipated in addition to I've likely forgotten a couple.
Circling dorsum to Ida, here's an online version of History of the Standard Oil Company.

Although in that place are quite a few critiques you lot tin compass notice heighten close her mass it was pretty of import in addition to was 1 of the factors that led to the breakup of Standard Oil inward the Supreme Court determination "Standard Oil Co. of New Bailiwick of Jersey v. United States" vii years later. So Mr Rockefeller likely considered the mass important.

It ranks #5 on NYU's Journalism school's listing of the 100 best industrial plant of 20th-century American journalism. (via the NYT)  

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