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Actually, I was hired, trained by Merril Lynch in 1969. Left for training in NYC (from Merril's first suburban office in Evanston, Il. Having managed a construction trade association for eight years, it was a rude awakening to world of finance and shennanigans on Wall Street and beyond. I passed the securities, commodities and options (something just being discoved by the smallish investment public. It was the beginning of an eye-opening, fifteen-year journey through the walls of just about every major brokerage house....Merril, Paine Weber, Hornblower, Steifel Nicolaus, HB Shane, Dominick & Dominick, Gilford....I probably missed a few...but most of these "churn 'em and burn 'em prestigious houses were mired in greed, unethical conduct and front-running...
Won't get into details here, but as the tune goes..."If they asked me...I could write a book.

Music Biz has its goons, freeloaders, attorney/sharks, etc., but nothing compares with the financial world.
I remember hiring a Greek kid just out of Harvard Business School...1987...his first real job for a brokerage house and he was...and is...a multi-millionaire owner of one of the most notoriously rich hedge funds on the street.


Ol' Jimmy Chanos....look him up on Wikapedia...he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee...you see, in this stock biz we ALWAYS eat our own....He has been instrumental in sending many a corporation, multi-million dollar firms in and out of the financial industry, down to their knees and catching fire as they faded in a blaze of inglorius glory. Jimmy liked to short companies that were in favor with the big brokerage houses. He broke the back of many, like Bache in the Biz...and Baldwin United, Coleco Computers (Cabbage Patch Doll), and scores of other public and private companies...didn't mean diddly-shit to the movers and shakers on Wall Street.

If you were in their sights, or they were in someone elses sights...the end result was...You'll Get Yours too, someday!!!...make no mistake about it!!!

The disaster of the last two years is just a small ripple as to what's coming down the "money trail", over the next few years. Fasten your saftybelts and enjoy the "End Times"!! The American populace is hip to what's goin' on finally!! O'Bama & Co. love it!!
Socialism...Communism...Revolution...HERE WE COME, BABY. Pardon me whilst I field strip and oil up my Walther PPKS!!!
Meanwhile...let's play musical chairs....it's sooo much fun..and the banging together is just "childs play" comparitively speaking!!!





Surely not!!!!! And here I've been told repeatedly by everybody on Fox news that wide-open, unregulated capitalism is the perfect system and was even specified so in the Bible! And anyone who disagrees hates American, God, and the Troops!

Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"