User:Acloudrift

I only want to leave a complaint about the article on British Economist David Ricardo. In the part describing his life, a story is told about how he made a fortune betting on the outcome of the battle of Waterloo. This story is identical in every detail to the story often told about Nathan Rothschild. I could not find any cooperating evidence to support this narrative for Ricardo. Since the story about Rothschild is very famous, the same story about Ricardo looks spurious to me. How likely is it that two gents were equally shrewd to make a fortune in exactly the same way? The story in Ricardo should be deleted. No matter what the truth is, omitting it does no harm.