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A sacerdotal atmosphere pervades this old-line family bank, where the very notion of risk is verboten, where rumors and hot tips are considered unseemly

Populism, progressivism, and the New Deal (not to mention socialism and the labor movement) are overdetermined phenomena originating in multiple grievances, articulating a variegated array of desires and objectives

the declension of the masculine mystique long identified with the titan of finance

Confidence Men writ large, as a moral stench in the nostrils of society

the fatuity and hypocrisy that lurked just beneath this romance of risk