Flushed with the success of his arbitrage operation, my twenty-two-year-old grandfather set out to marry and make money, only to face setbacks that brought him to the brink of despair. Ben’s early years in finance illustrate that Wall Street isn’t Easy Street. Not even a trailblazing titan is immune from suffering losses. Yet in the face of financial calamity, Benjamin Graham forged a difficult marriage, started a family, and launched his “steady climb toward affluence.” The post Benj...
