The Wall Street Draft: How to Revive Interest in a Financial Career among Students

Over the last two decades, much has been made about Wall Street firms attracting the best young intellectual talent from our nation’s top colleges and universities.  In a different era, the business, finance and economics majors were funneled into management training programs at General Electric or IBM.  Engineering majors designed planes for Boeing, weapons for [...]

Fast times in Buenos Aires

“The gringos all ask me if I am a real drug dealer,” he says.
“I don’t tell them, but I ask them what they do. They say they are some big banker from London or New York, and I tell them that I am too. They like me better, and then I sell them more [...]

I believe I can fly

Jason pointed this out when I was visiting him in Sevilla. From an (unedited?) obituary on investment banker Albert Gordon in the NYTimes. Absolutely priceless.
Mr. Gordon arrived on Wall Street in 1925 as a new Harvard Business School graduate, to take a job as a statistician with Goldman. He traveled an immense territory selling [...]