“I’ve made peace with it,” he said, without emotion. Yet I knew how the admission ate at him. As the Occupy movement emerged from the 2008 crisis, he described with eager optimism his hope for greater justice, equality. He grew up poor, made his way to our finest engineering university, and earned a position atop Wall Street’s proprietary trading elite; standing as testimony to the productive power unleashed by hard
Hope all goes well… “You want to be mentally concerned now, awake, alert,” said the CIO. “But you don’t want to express that concern yet in your portfolio,” he continued, his own portfolio performance well ahead of any index you could compare it to, for years running. “These things are supposed to go way past Red,” he continued. Before real bull markets finally turn, they first ignore all the obvious warning signals.