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a person who moves money for a living and somehow always lands richer.
means A person who manages large amounts of money, arranging loans, investments, and the funding of big ventures.
from Straight from French, where financier meant one who deals in finance — built on finance itself, from Old French finance, "a payment, an ending, a settling-up," rooted in the verb finer, "to settle a debt, to end." That all traces back to Latin finis, "end, boundary." The thread of logic: a debt paid is a matter brought to its end. English borrowed financier in the 18th century, keeping the French shape — and that lingering -ier ending still gives the word a faint whiff of powdered wigs and gilded ledgers.
- french origin
- Word once meant a royal tax collector
- tiny cake
- Financier is also a gold almond cake
- medici roots
- A banking family bankrolled the Renaissance
- rothschild speed
- Carrier pigeons once beat newspapers to market news
- risk trade
- Profit is just rented uncertainty
jp morgan — american banker who consolidated us steel in 1901 and controlled $260 billion in assets by 1912
george soros — hungarian-american investor who made $1 billion shorting the british pound in 1992
warren buffett — berkshire hathaway ceo with $137 billion net worth as of 2024, built through stock investments