Gangs of New York, only the young men were addicted not to slot machines but the trading floor. Though greed is universal, it looks different in America.
It doesn’t quite matter how you made your money as long as you look the part. Some of the bankers I met would have joined the underworld or the mob a hundred years ago.
They relished the fact that the idiots in charge only had a hint of what really happened below deck.When I met my British husband in New York, bankers really did rule the roost - and everyone who criticised them was shrugged off as jealous.
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