“…. This was what they had been waiting for: total collapse. “The investment-banking industry is fucked,” Eisman had told me a few weeks earlier. “These guys are only beginning to understand how fucked they are.
It’s like being a Scholastic, prior to Newton. Newton comes along, and one morning you wake up: ‘Holy shit, I’m wrong!’ ” Now Lehman Brothers had vanished, Merrill had surrendered, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were just a week away from ceasing to be investment banks. The investment banks were not just fucked; they were extinct …” Good article, worth a read.
Thanks for the link, Robert.
Hi Folks
Just thought I’d post to say hi. I’ve been a lurker on here for a while and as a natural introvert, I thought it was time to “man-up” and make myself known.
Anyway, hopefully I can add some value on here and don’t get flamed too badly ;-)
Thanks
Cannon Fodder :-)