J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Owned America

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Wealth, power, and influence. J.P Morgan had it all. He owned the first billion-dollar company. He dominated the country’s most profitable industries. And on multiple occasions, the economy of The United States quite literally depended on the actions of J.P. Morgan. With a simple word or the stroke of a pen, John Pierpont Morgan could save a company from collapse or doom it to bankruptcy. There will never be another man quite like JP Morgan - literally, he is part of the reason the federal reserve was created so that the finances of a country wouldn’t be in the hands of one ultra wealthy and influential financier.
This MagnatesMedia documentary is the story of JP Morgan - aka John Pierpont Morgan: the banker who owned America. We’ll look at how he pioneered Morganization to consolidate companies and grow his fortune, how he made deals with the government to help stabilize the economy (e.g. through a gold syndicate), and even the troubled personal life of John Pierpont Morgan - who despite his wealth and business / financial success was plagued by tragedy. Of course long after JP Morgan died his legacy has lived on through his bank (now JPMorgan Chase), and so I hope you enjoy the history of the industrialist and magnate, John Pierpont Morgan.
JP Morgan: The Man Who Owned America
J.P Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World
⌛ Chapters:
00:00 Prologue: The Story of JP Morgan
00:38 Chapter 1: A Sickly Start
04:26 Chapter 2: The Railroad Magnate
09:23 Chapter 3: The Man of Steel
10:55 Chapter 4: Crisis
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16:54 Chapter 5: Legacy
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Epstein's Island perhaps?

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[@RisingRevengeance]

I'm a bit conflicted when it comes to people like him. On one hand what he did was undeniably impressive on the other hand it's scary how much control of the world a single man can have.

[@suryakamalnd9888]

And I'm in a bit of conflict with the world when it comes to people like him.. I get inspired seeing such powerful and rich people and take them as a role model.. ok it's an unpopular opinion.. but still I love such stuff..

[@RisingRevengeance]

@@suryakamalnd9888 I don't think what he did was wrong, so he's fine as a role model if thats what you want. My issue lies with the world that allowed him to be so vital. One man/company shouldn't be able to save or end a country.

[@elijahpiere5324]

@@RisingRevengeancethat’s what happens when someone is willing to sacrifice more than others are willing to. No matter what laws they pass, there will always be someone like Morgan willing to risk it all to own the world

[@iYoungxKhalifa]

its bad but i want to be like him. the power i would influence alot of people. some good some bad, i guarantee its easy to influence people to do bad.

[@suryakamalnd9888]

@@RisingRevengeance I ment, people like him.. like dictators, Very powerful people like cornnegi and jp Morgan and such very powerful people.. although I hate Hitler for his bad deeds, I hate only such people who went out and killed so many for no reasons..

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"GOLD is Money... everything else is credit." ~ J. P. Morgan

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WOW! Typical of J.P.M. and most apt!

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How and what is he going to eat if gold is no value to farmer?

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This is facts.

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@@IGame4Fun2he’s gonna eat gold, of course

[@agroman77]

@@IGame4Fun2 if gold isn't money isn't too, at some places money is worth nothing, not even the price of the paper itself. gold has "about the same value" on the right hands anywhere. you can get food or fertilizer with gold that you can't with money or by just having a car. of course madmax style is an other thing.

[@kotyarawinner4283]

“Wealth, Fame, Power. The man who had acquired everything in this world, JP Morgan. The final words that were said at his execution sent people to the seas. "My wealth and treasure? If you want it, I’ll let you have it! Look for it! I left it all at that place!”

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​@@Vapor817notice how you didn't say kids.

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No man should have this much power but under the right man, this much power can save a country that hadn’t yet established itself. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s good for us that he was the guy who got this powerful and not someone else. The usa wouldn’t have gotten to the top is he let it fail

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Magnates Media I can’t thank you enough for reposting this back on your channel it’s my favourite video on this channel And good luck with the whole Alex Edson thing

[@snipz127]

Unlike corporations today, JP Morgan actually loved America.

[@yourdad-rq1zm]

Agent of european overlord bankers

[@liamcollinson5695]

I doubt his workers would agree I feel like he would be a nightmare to deal with

[@goat9295]

corporations never love anything other than money. JP Morgan himself did what he had to to save his own ass too

[@gappergob6169]

​@@yourdad-rq1zm They're from Europe after all.

[@nerd26373]

JP Morgan is one powerful guy, a little too powerful for my own taste. Men similar to him in characteristics tend to abuse without any lingering mercy. Somehow he’s made an impact, but it’s up to debate whether or not it was either a good or bad impact.

[@davidarundel6187]

How many times has JP Morgan's bank , been bailed out , by taxpayers , and why did he set our development back hundreds of years ,

[@piyushvasdani8206]

@@davidarundel6187 technically he saved usa from recession

[@kngkashi7759]

He the 🐐

[@C0PE_]

He was a human,with all our flaws and makes big mistakes like all of us just with alot of money and influence and he actually was decent for someone like that and especially compared to others in his position and he actually tried to at least do good /what he thought was good ,money and power influence our pysche and somehow give us a fear of scarcity ironically

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[@jaydouglas5847]

Upon his death in 1913 his net worth was 80 million, equivalent to about 2.3 billion in today's money. Upon hearing these figures John D Rockefeller commented " That is very surprising as I mistakenly thought JP was a wealthy man".

[@benperez8291]

Is rock-fellers that much higher?

[@jaydouglas5847]

JDR was already an actual billionaire( the first ever) by that date, Soon, as automobiles became widespread and gas engines replaced coal steam power in industry his wealth skyrocketed. His net worth reached 2.5 percent of the US GDP. In todays money that would equal to about 600 billion. @@benperez8291

[@amh31]

​@@benperez8291 Err, obviously the exact number isn't precise. But it is estimated Rockefeller's net worth at his peak was around 410 billion (adjusted to current values)

[@AmritDillon]

​@@amh31don't know about that but it says his networth 900 million. 3% of usa economy in 1913 and 26 billion in today's time.

[@ok-pv7fw]

​@@AmritDillon26b isn't 3% in today's US economy 😂it's almost a trillion

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Glad to have magnates back!

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“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; That’s why more money doesn’t make you rich - assets make you rich.” - Robert Kiyosaki

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K bot

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that guy is a clown

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Robert Kiyosaki then..... And now.... 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Eddybo22]

That's why he went bankrupt. Noted.

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Let's go the channel is on fire again!

[@Financial-Education101]

So happy that you can continue, I look forward to each of your new videos.

[@somerandomfella]

Despite owning railroads and investment banks, John's making cool YT videos for us 😎

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Thought as much while I was watching I keep have this feeling that I have watched this before. For I have watched all your videos.

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Congratulations for 1million subs❤🎉

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Much Love From Straya

[@solz2636]

Absolutely insane that he had so much vested interest in America he goes straight to the president himself to help him fix this shit cause he already owns 1/3rd of the market. I knew America was run by corporations but I didn't realize for how long now

[@amh31]

Umm since well before the US even declared independence. Literally John Hancock was a Boston businessman who hated how limited and taxed he was by the British government. Is world-renowned for helping the US declare independence and was a major architect to the continental congress. Business was, is and always will be the backbone of the US.

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Wow the interduction had me good job man

[@CB_1313]

Thank you for this video, I have to do a school project about him and I knew nothing about him.

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[@abhijithvm3166]

its a wonderful video and its must watchable because this video has sharing a life story of one of the best business legend in our world and his name is JP Morgan. Why i suggesting this video has the way of presentation and the theme are amazing or fabulous, One of the key thing is that when i watching this video its didn't bore any of the area and its truly engaging. Coming to this video the video has split into 5 parts and the first part of this video has completely on childhood life of JP and coming to the second part its sharing some tragedy was happened in his life then moving into third part its sharing some strategy he used in his professional life and fourth part giving a insight about the influence of Jp in America and final part is end of JP journey and current situation of Jp Company etc. Once again thank you for the wonderful video and we still waiting something bigger than this.

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Glad you're back

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Nice to see this video got back up! I really liked this one.

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Nice to see

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No one has finished this video yet, but we all know it will be great... because this is a re-upload.

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I have

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Yeah y did he make another

[@justforfun9780]

@@discoveringme941 check the pinned comment.

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i wrote a comment about why this channel doesn't have too much followers when it had about 200k or something like that subscribers. congrats for 1million sub! you deserve it.

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Great amount of work in great amount of videos

[@ortiz11039]

He was also going to sail on the Titanic along with all of his competitors but backed out before the ship sailed. Coincidence? I think not

[@AbbadonXII]

The iceberg was a government plant

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It's back!

[@janhafen1263]

Nice vid! Would love if you make a series of old entrepreneurs from previous centuries

[@davidjrthekingsir]

About to reach one million subscribers, congratulations

[@kingstonstreet3726]

J.P. Morgan stay true to turn small companies in big companies example looks at the smaller banks they are agreeing to buy

[@bowlersunanimous1983]

J.P. Morgan, the man who killed his federal reserve opposition aboard the titanic (a ship he funded and coincidentally cancelled his spot on a its maiden voyage.) J.P. Morgan, a man who’s empire now has a branch every 5 square miles in urban and metropolitan areas. J.P. Morgan, the man who ensured slavery extends to each and every American that happened to not be part of the power structure. Thank you, J.P. Morgan.

[@zxylo786]

Wait, you are saying JP Morgan is so rich that he hired an iceberg to crash into the Titanic?

[@generalkenobi5173]

@@zxylo786 godamn i knew he was powerful but i didn't know he had super powers to convince an ice berg to do an assassination on his behalf.

[@patrickday4206]

They own the streets in Chicago and all the parking

[@patrickday4206]

Who proved it was an iceberg?

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Congrats on a million!

[@faisalsheikh7846]

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[@Cypixal]

Holy crap it's the monopoly dude

[@leifwulffstephan3725]

I think this is the inspiration for JP in Street Fighter 6

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Its back!!! Big W for MagnatesMedia 🎉🍾

[@50MAN50AMAZIN]

How about doing a video about Mr Reginal Lewis a black American businessman from humble beginnings that made one of the biggest global deals in the history of America buying Beatrice foods international A $970mill deal when being a billionaire wasn't so popular ?

[@lengting]

Alex Edson is typing…

[@Samu_hbg]

Congratulations 🎉 1m I wish you to go even further

[@betrp]

After J.P. Morgan died, the stock exchange shut down for two hours from 10 am till noon on April 14, 1913, the day of his funeral. But these kind of closings are rare and far between.

[@hitovaneriummaximus2325]

This guy was the real life Scrooge Mcduck.

[@drknss0082]

What he was doing was monopoly, if I look at him he does kind of look like the character of the monopoly board game😂

[@Shannon_Vlogs]

So happy to see this video from YOU!

[@shyrain67]

yay i never saw this video before it went down im so happy i finally get to see it

[@garrettwilson7795]

the federal reserve is the worst thing that has ever happened to the american economy

[@grichard1585]

You should make a video on Jay Gould, the railroad magnate who once said..."I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half"

[@Commander-leo]

Fire intro 🔥🔥

[@dezz_YT]

Yooo finally new video love it man

[@Jedi_Judo19]

So we have Morgan and his cronnies to thank for the Federal Reserve and ultimately the Petrodollar and the current global financial system. Thanks Mr. Morgan for making life so hard in the rest of the world outside the US, while making the US into the most overpriviledged society in history.

[@alexisautotte7159]

So this is the man who purposely sank the titanic to collect insurance money 😂😂

[@GhostWrapper]

Right, no one wants to talk about that!!!

[@DescomplicandoHW]

Man, such a quality video, omg, theres nothing like this here in my country, awesome!

[@williamkreth]

Great content bro

[@mrlox9576]

He unified many industries that would likely still be small players and unable to compete on a global market otherwise. And he bailed the country out more than once at a time when every other country had turned their backs and caused economic collapses that would have lasted a long time and costed many lives given the state of things, setting the countries progress back many years. His display of confidence in the economy despite it failing, is the only reason overseas confidence and investment was restored. Without him getting things back on track, USA would not have been in a position to do it's part in the wars. Would have been way too under funded and under resourced. It took a lot of time for countries to build up everything and stand strong back then. Still does, but not as long. Consolidating industries is one of the things that has made china a world power in such a short time. Like Morgan or not, regardless of the fact that he's there to make money, the guy deserved a thanks, not a big F.U. from the public.

[@brandongarza342]

In the same breath he manipulated laws and politicians and monopolized industries as a spoiled little brat who came from one of americas first wealthy class. This guy had all the money in the world before he was even born and just continued to try and get more and more by using that money to just continue to manipulate and monopolized until the very things he did destroyed the market and he just bought that too… hero? More like slum lord ..

[@noble7461]

@@brandongarza342first commenter has the typical wealth worshiping attitude.

[@zxylo786]

Yeah, this man is an amazing case study and worthy of admiration. Hero is wrongly used. But he is still someone who should be studied and admired.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@brandongarza342 Well, that is one alternate, purely dark view of the guy, as-if he had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. For your own well-being of soul, spirit and mind C-H-A-N-G-E, and find the better in all things and persons, and eschew utterly of the destructive and hateful.

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And if I might, another feather in the cap of Morgan's is his love and respect and understanding of the necessity of ART in the lives of we humans. To this, as all should know, he "put his money where is mouth was" (altered to past-tense) in what he acquired and made as available to We, the Public. Morgan absolutely was "type." GOLD is Money... everything else is credit." ~ J. P. Morgan (Thanks going to @kevinwoolcock6881 who posted this delicious quote here 3 weeks ago.)