I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

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Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

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A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

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After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

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The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

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