Wall Street Journal. Who's Who and What's What on Wall Street. New York:
Ballantine Books, 1998. 531 pages.
"As we stand poised on the brink of the next century, Wall Street has
never been more turbulent or exciting." So says the front flap of the dust
cover. We may also be poised on the brink of global financial meltdown, a
situation which many of those named in this book created with nonproductive
speculation and profiteering. Once you overlook WSJ's bubbly style sheet
("elite investment bank," "bold bet," "capitalize on advancing technology")
and realize that they're merely describing a huge casino, this book becomes
a useful depository of information on the Wall Street rogues' gallery of
top players. Their ethics are depressingly easy to decipher: the most good
is demonstrated by the highest profit -- but if you're caught, you get your
sticky fingers slapped, and a one-point penalty.
Included are thumbnail "personality profiles" of over 800 officers,
directors, and leading stars of major Wall Street firms. These range from
an entire page for some of the CEOs, to as little as a single sentence about
previous employment for the lesser lights. The firms are Merrill Lynch,
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Salomon Smith Barney, PaineWebber, Prudential
Securities, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse
First Boston, J.P. Morgan, Bankers Trust New York, New York Stock Exchange,
Nasdaq, and two chapters on the regulators: the SEC and the Federal Reserve.
ISBN 0-345-41483-7
Extract the names from this source
Back to search page