šĀ Empire Reborn: The George Cooper ChroniclesChapter 1 ā The Last TradeThe year was 2009.
Wall Street was chaos. Recession. Collapse. Panic. But George Cooper wasn't panicking.
He was sitting calmly in his glass-walled office, sipping black coffee, watching the world burn outside his Bloomberg terminal.
They called him "The Oracle of Midtown." A 33-year-old financial prodigy who'd shorted the 2008 marketĀ beforeĀ anyone saw it coming. He wasn't just goodāhe was a legend. By the end of Q4, he'd made $2.7 billion for the firm.
And yet, on that icy December morning, none of it mattered.
He stepped outside, phone in hand, replying to a text from an analyst:
Oil's down again. Want me to sell the Gulf refineries?
George smirked.
No. Buy them all.
Then, fate struck.
He never saw the "Caution: Wet Floor" sign at the Tesla showroom next door. One slip. One instant. The last thought in his mind was...
Next timeā¦ I'll do more.