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From that moment, Meredith Whitney became E. F. Hutton: When she spoke, people listened. Her message was clear: If you want to know what these Wall Street firms are really worth, take a cold, hard look at these crappy assets they’re holding with borrowed money, and imagine what they’d fetch in a fire sale. The vast assemblages of highly paid people
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P R O L O G U E A Doorway in Boston
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
It was the proposal of a fanatic.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Litvinoff’s life was defined by a delight in the weight of the real; his friend’s by a rejection of reality, with its army of flat-footed facts.
Nicole Krauss • The History of Love: A Novel
“It was science fiction more than computer science,”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Since almost every word Wolfe wrote was autobiographical, nearly all his characters based closely on real people, there had always been a risk of prosecution.