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...after 160 intervening pages of pablum, Vigeland offers a wonderful description of hijinks at the Harvard Management Company, the University's downtown moneymen, and their star, $240,000-a-year trader Bing Sung. Vigeland humorously captures the irony of stock- and bond-traders shouting at each other, manning three telephones at once, pioneering new kinds of financial deals--all for the benefit of the world's stodgiest university...
...easier to push a direct line button than make a phone call," says one equity HMC trader. "Speed is of essence when you try to sell or buy stocks...
Besides using direct lines for stock transactions, traders "exchange information" over the phone, says an HMC equity trader. "Someone might call up to ask the firm's stance on the market in general and ask "What do you think about the market today and why?" she says...
Many professionals have ridden their drug habits to bankruptcy and homelessness. Bob, a Wall Street trader, was so hooked on cocaine that he lost his job and wound up eating out of garbage cans and living on the streets. David, an attorney in New Jersey, spent $60,000 on cocaine in 1983 and frequently free-based cocaine in his office. Fearing that invisible people were watching him at all hours, he nailed shut the windows in his house and covered them with sheets, but still believed they were coming through the walls. Both men now regularly attend meetings of Cocaine...
...RACHMIL and Daniel Melnick probably thought that Quicksilver, Footloose's Kevin Bacon's new star vehicle, would do for bicycle riding what Rocky did for boxing and Chariots of Fire did for track and field. No such luck. This aspiring urban tale of a oncehip and in-control commodities trader who becomes a bicycle messenger offers the viewer little more than a confused story line...