Wall Street’s evocative dynamic landscape simultaneously encompasses our greatest hopes and our deepest fears.
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” Mark Twain wrote, “because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”
Were Twain alive today, in his estimation, the daily activities of financiers like Carl Icahn, Jamie Dimon, and Steve Cohen would rival that of fictional characters like Gordon Gekko and “master of the universe” Sherman McCoy. Yet, works of fiction persist to color how the general investor tends to view Wall Street.