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The finance industry makes things complicated on purpose. If everyone understood how simple investing actually is, half of Wall Street would be out of a job.
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I was a bond trader on Wall Street. I saw how the financial system extracts fees from people who can't afford them.
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Wall Street is a meritocracy with sharp elbows. If you can survive that, you can survive anything.
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The bonus was in my contract. I earned it. The political optics were someone else’s problem.
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Wall Street is in the business of making money between now and next Tuesday. We're in the business of building an organization, an institution that we hope will be here 50 years from now.