Once the "big kids" on Wall Street started playing with other people's money -- e.g., when the firms converted from private partnerships with their own money at risk to public corporations, it was only a matter of time.
It wasn't pure greed that killed them.
It was simple arrogance.
Or, as a wise sage once told me during the peak of the bull market, "they're like fat guys riding their bicycles downhill thinking they're going fast because they're good athletes."
Wall Street, R.I.P. Now What? [View article]
Once the "big kids" on Wall Street started playing with other people's money -- e.g., when the firms converted from private partnerships with their own money at risk to public corporations, it was only a matter of time.
It wasn't pure greed that killed them.
It was simple arrogance.
Or, as a wise sage once told me during the peak of the bull market, "they're like fat guys riding their bicycles downhill thinking they're going fast because they're good athletes."