Gerald M. Loeb

 

Gerald Martin Loeb (24 ga Yuli, 1899 - 13 ga Afrilu, 1974) abokin tarayya ne na kafa EF Hutton & Co., wani sanannen kamfanin ciniki da dillali na Wall Street . Shi ne marubucin littattafan The Battle For Investment Survival da The Battle For Stock Market Profits . Loeb ya haɓaka ra'ayin cewa kasuwa tana da haɗari sosai don riƙe hannun jari na dogon lokaci, sabanin sanannun masu zuba jari masu daraja . Ya kuma ƙirƙiri lambar yabo ta Gerald Loeb, wacce ake bayarwa kowace shekara saboda ƙwarewa a fannoni daban-daban na aikin jarida na kuɗi.

Rayuwar farko

An haifi Loeb ga Dahlia H. Levy da Solomon E. Loeb a ranar 24 ga Yuli, 1899, a San Francisco, California. An haifi ɗan'uwansa, Sydney, a ranar 14 ga Disamba, 1903. Solomon attajiri ne mai sayar da giya daga New Orleans . Dahlia 'yar Herman M. Levy ce, wani attajiri mai arziki wanda ya tara dukiyarsa yana sayar da kayayyaki ga masu hakar ma'adinai a lokacin gangamin zinare na California da kuma gangamin azurfa na Comstock Lode a Nevada .

Mummunan yanayi guda biyu na iyali sun faru da Loeb lokacin da yake ɗan shekara takwas. Da farko, kakansa na mahaifiyarsa ya mutu a ranar 25 ga Yuni, 1908. Bayan mako guda a ranar 4 ga Yuli, mahaifinsa ya mutu a wani hatsarin jirgin ƙasa a tsakiyar birnin Oakland yayin da yake dawowa daga tafiya ta yini ɗaya zuwa Santa Cruz don yin shirye-shiryen hutun iyali a can. Wani jirgin ƙasa na gida ya bugi motar hayaki ta jirgin ƙasa na Southern Pacific Railroad (SPR) bayan da injiniyan jirgin ƙasa na SPR ya yi watsi da siginar tsayawa a mahadar hanyoyi biyu, inda ya kashe mutane da yawa a cikin motar. SPR ta biya Dahlia da 'ya'yanta kuɗin sulhu na $8,000 ( equivalent to $280,000 a shekarar 2024 ) sun rabu daidai tsakanin ukun. Mutuwar mahaifin Loeb da kakansa ta sa mahaifiyarsa ta yi arziki sosai.

Loeb ya kamu da cutar shan inna a lokacin da mahaifinsa ya rasu. Cutar ta kawo cikas ga karatunsa kuma ta kawo cikas ga burinsa na zama mai zane.

Loeb ya kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Lowell da ke San Francisco.

Aiki da rubutu

Loeb ya fara aikinsa a shekarar 1921, yana aiki a sashen lamuni na wani kamfanin tsaro a San Francisco . Ya koma New York a shekarar 1924 bayan ya shiga EF Hutton & Co., kuma ya zama mataimakin shugaban hukumar lokacin da aka kafa kamfanin a shekarar 1962.

Duk da cewa ya guji asarar da ya yi wa kansa, faduwar Wall Street ta 1929 ta shafi salon saka hannun jari na Loeb sosai, wanda hakan ya sa ya yi shakku kan riƙe hannun jari na dogon lokaci. Loeb ya bayar da ra'ayi na saka hannun jari, a cikin littattafai da ginshiƙai a cikin littafin Barron, The Wall Street Journal, da Investor Magazine . Mujallar Forbes ta kira Loeb "mutumin da aka fi ambato a Wall Street."

Littafin farko na Loeb, The Battle for Investment Survival (1935), ya sayar da sama da kwafi 200,000 a lokacin Babban Mawuyacin Halin Kunci . Loeb ya sabunta littafin a 1957 da 1965, yayin da ya kai matsayin rubutun kuɗi na gargajiya. A 1971, Loeb ya buga The Battle for Stock Market Ribas a matsayin bibiyar littafinsa na asali inda ya kwatanta kasuwa a matsayin filin yaƙi. Har yanzu ana karanta littattafan Loeb sosai a yau kuma mutane da yawa suna yaba shi a matsayin muhimmin abu ga ƙwararrun masu saka hannun jari.

Rayuwa ta sirri

Loeb ya auri Rose Lobree Benjamin a ranar 11 ga Afrilu, 1947, a San Francisco. Rose, matar mai haɓaka gidaje ta Shanghai Maurice Benjamin, an haife ta a shekara ta 1900 ko 1901 a Brentwood, California, ga Mr. da Mrs. AE Lobree.

Duba kuma

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