Too Smart For Wall Street
Interesting Op-Ed piece by Calvin Trillin in today’s NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/opinion/14trillin.html?ref=opinion
What makes it doubly interesting is that I’ve heard the first part of the argument before. Often. Trillin is of my father’s generation, and my father always said the same thing. The smart guys he knew were all lawyers or doctors or academics. None of them went into banking.
And then in the ’80s the bankers started making more money than anyone else and everything changed
