![]() ![]() We feel the seething greed and jealousies – the stuff that makes novels come alive. Reads of this remarkable tale do not stand outside looking in, their noses pressed to the glass we are inside looking out. Not just inside the financial instruments, but inside the culture that sired them inside the families, including the spouses and children that enjoyed lavish riches and inside the internal rivalries and mismanagement that speeded the fall. There have been a slew of terrific books on how Wall Street brought the economy to its knees, but in The Devil’s Casino, Vicky Ward does something unusual. Its life, and death, tells us why it was a magnet for talent, and why it was toxic. ![]() Lehman Brothers, the oldest partnership on Wall Street, was always a brilliant but cursed child. ![]()
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