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Howie, inside Morgan Stanley, would lose $9 billion on a single mortgage trade, and remain essentially unknown, without anyone beyond a small circle inside Morgan Stanley ever hearing about what he’d done, or why.
Michael Lewis • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
But it compelled me to watch Jefferies more closely, a company whose namesake and origin, unlike Morgan Stanley, had a pretty non illustrious past (for starters, I had never worked at an established firm that had only one name).
Robert Lessin • Lessin's Lessons
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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Public equities—Stocks that trade on public market exchanges.
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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great deal since then.41
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
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providing advice and transaction services to the more complex but (we hoped) more durable and profitable business of investing.