You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.