My, how far we’ve come from the 1980s, when Tom Wolfe glorified investment bankers as “masters of the universe” in Bonfire of the Vanities. For inasmuch as Wolfe parodied the confluence of their sins (most notably, racism and greed), even he did not fully appreciate the utter venality, vacuity, and depravity of the financial transactions… Read more.
Investment Bankers as Bagmen for Terrorists and Drug Kingpins?!
Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:28 PM