MacDougal Irving is the pen name of a retired CPA with over 50 years of investment experience (security analyst and portfolio manager in the early years, and private investor ever since) whose dad's back office career spanned 54 years of fascinating financial history (1915-1969). MacDougal has basically become a fictional character in a private blog spawned by the flash crash, essentially used by the author to embody the rage an old-time investor might deservedly feel in the light of what Wall Street has become. While the private blog only draws on real life, for Seeking Alpha, MacDougal promises to put a lid on his anger and stick to the facts, at least as the actual author understands them.
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