Zwei lesenswerte Stücke zum gleichen Thema:
“Global finance is being torn apart; it can be put back together again”, meint der Economist.
Tom Wolfe lässt uns im Observer wissen, was er von Investmentbankern hält (und verrät zum Schluss des Interviews sein neues Hobby):
“But aren’t the days of hyper-expensive real estate, like $40 million apartments at 15 Central Park West, over?
I doubt it. I don’t have that feeling you’re over. I keep reading about that feeling. I don’t run into people who have that feeling. I haven’t been talking to employees of investment banks. Besides, there’s nothing as second-rate as investment banks. Every smart and ambitious young man—and forget young women because they don’t play any role in this—wants to be in a hedge fund. And I’d be surprised if the hedge funds implode, they’re just smarter. … What bright guy wants to be an executive for a firm like Lehman Brothers, where you have to hold the hand of disgruntled employees, you hold the hand of disgruntled directors, you’re constantly nice and wearing the right clothes? That’s for real second-raters. … It’s only the bottom of the barrel that’s left in these companies. I’m trying to think of some analogy! Kind of like the railroad business, investment banking.”