A stock seller's crisis of conscience

[nancylebov]

"Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”(warning, this link is a long read, but it is worthy).

That person would be me.

Kugelblitz gives me credit for pointing him at the very long and very interesting article, but considering that it's been linked all over most of the places I read, he probably would have seen it anyway.

The rest of his story:

http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/160874.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/161497.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/161751.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/162293.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/162611.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/162995.html
http://kugelblitz.livejournal.com/163499.html

Comments

[lordlnyc.livejournal.com]

Nancy, his post are friends locked.

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[aylinn.livejournal.com]

they are all locked.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

OK, I will unlock them.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I found it (as most of the commenters did) a very compelling read.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much--and my apologies, since I should have checked before I linked to them.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

Ah well, cry havoc.

[siderea]

Hey, I really appreciated the read.

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I'm glad he referenced the movie "Boiler Room" because his story reads exactly like it. BTW, it's well worth seeing.

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

Thank you for writing this. It was riveting.

[landley.livejournal.com]

Ooh, wow, the long awaited conclusion to Liar's Poker.

I've been a fan of this book for years:
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/RuleMaker/1999/RuleMaker990217.htm

And I've blogged more than once this year about how you can trace the current credit crunch back to that:
http://landley.net/notes-2008.html#09-10-2008
http://landley.net/notes-2008.html#24-08-2008

Good to see Michael Lewis is still around...

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

In point of fact, I avoided watching that movie for quite some time, and only saw it after a friend brought it over and made me watch it. He knew.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

You are welcome.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

It was easier to write than I had thought, and I had intended to write a single paragraph to this LJ about the whole deal and well, one para just wouldn't stop. Once I started recapping it just kind of poured out.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Have you considered sending it to Michael Lewis?

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you have an email address? I looked around and fund his talent rep but that is it.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that you could reach him through his publisher. If you like, I'll mention your story to a few blogs that have much wider readership than I do, and see if it gets picked up.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

For various reasons, I would rather not. I have reservations about having this spammed everywhere. I might need to redact parts for certain reasons.

If I can make contact with him at some point, that would be great.