Imagine being so rich that you could buy mansions and travel the world, but you choose instead to go around begging for leftover cakes to eat. That is the story of Hetty Green, the stingiest woman in ...

Hetty Green is remembered as the “world’s greatest miser” and the “Witch of Wall Street," but these days, Green would likely be seen as an eccentric investing icon. After all, while she became famous ...

BEARING the sedate imprint of Scribner, Leon Trotsky’s autobiography, “My Life,” comes as the cry of an exiled soul in the wilderness. What little was clear before in Soviet politics and policies is ...

Imagine being so rich that you could buy mansions and travel the world, but you choose instead to go around begging for leftover cakes to eat. Henrietta “Hetty” Howland Robinson was born in 1835 in ...