Tag: Wall Street
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Some Perspective (or Maybe, Rose-Colored Glasses)
Today’s Wall Street Journal informs me that Wall Street as we knew it has ceased to exist. That bums me out. I used to make quite a decent living as a corporate gumby on Wall Street, and Wall Street firms have been among my most important clients as a communications consultant. Oh well. I expect […]
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Bullish on (Bank of) America
So Merrill Lynch, where I toiled for 12 years, faces the end of nearly a century as a private company. At least it’s not like Lehman, an even-older company that was forced into bankruptcy when nobody would assume its liabilities. One of my earliest memories of working at Merrill Lynch is hearing CEO William A. […]