
J.P. Morgan
The most powerful banker in American history · 1837–1913
Net worth · ≈ $2.1 billion today
He bailed out the U.S. government twice, and from 1899 quietly consulted astrologer Evangeline Adams on how the heavens would move the markets. The line attributed to him says it plainly: “Millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do.”

