The Exchange Artist Author:Jane Kamensky High Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse: historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America. The story opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, which freely printed money to financ... more »e the then-tallest building in the US, the Exchange Coffee house, a 153 room seven story building in downtown Boston.« less