![]() ![]() They were kind of funnier on the page than they were in real life. Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” was supposed to be an indictment, too, but everybody wanted to be Gordon Gekko. It seemed to me that your book was an indictment of Wall Street but may have had the opposite effect. It’s such a different environment, even though maybe the underlying relationship to the rest of the society hasn’t changed. They’re just guys and women staring at screens and doing things with their computers. I’ve walked onto a big hedge fund trading floor, and they’re completely silent. The sound and the smell and the kind of taste of the place seems to have changed. I think there are characters like Jamie Dimon who would have fit very comfortably on the Salomon trading floor. Now it’s all been kind of flattened into this gray. There wasn’t anything quite like Salomon Brothers then. The corporate culture was almost anything goes and there was a delight in that, especially for someone writing about it. The place tolerated a range of human behavior and a range of character that corporations don’t today. And this financialization business is going to stop or be slowed. Society is going to get its arms around Wall Street. ![]() They were willing to pay me probably millions of dollars, but certainly hundreds of thousands, to dish out financial advice when I certainly didn’t know what you should be doing with your money. I vividly thought that I was trying to describe Brigadoon. ![]()
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