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Why Do So Many Ivy League Grads Go to Wall Steet?
The Atlantic ^
| 02/18/2012
| Edward Tenner
Posted on 02/18/2012 1:12:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
To the headline: why not?
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:16:00 PM PST
by
svcw
(Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
To: SeekAndFind
Hmmmmm, Ivy League grads to to Wall Street.
Wall Street is a seething hive of incompetency and criminality.
Just wondering if.......
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:16:30 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: SeekAndFind
Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?
I guess you have to be an intellectual to give a lengthy answer to this mystery.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:16:56 PM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: SeekAndFind
It’s reasonable to fret that Wall Street is vacuuming up all the best talent from our top colleges.
Given the unethical behaviour and incompetence shown by the banking industry, I hope we run out of that kind of talent soon.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:17:32 PM PST
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: SeekAndFind
..because you don’t go to Home Depot to buy hard salami.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:20:24 PM PST
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: SeekAndFind
The old boy network. Same as congress.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:20:36 PM PST
by
crosshairs
(Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
To: SeekAndFind
Ask Willie Sutton. "Because that's where the money is." .
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:21:29 PM PST
by
magslinger
(Who cares if they are"electable" if they are going to govern like Democrats? -noprogs)
To: SeekAndFind
All your profs scream, “wealth is bad!” —but they’re GRADING you, so you just shuttup, even though YOU know that wealth is good.
And later these robber guys on WS in the interview say, “wealth is good”, and that sounds MUCH more familiar.
So they go there, and end up becomign little robbers, in the process paying back the Hitlerian snob with the suede patches on his elbows, from years ago.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:22:39 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Doogle
..because you dont go to Home Depot to buy hard salami.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:23:26 PM PST
by
crosshairs
(Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
To: Doogle
“..because you dont go to Home Depot to buy hard salami.”
According to rumor, it can be found in the restrooms;)
To: SeekAndFind
Because they and their families are ALL friends. Can you say "oligarchy"? Yes, I knew you could....
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:26:45 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: svcw
To: SeekAndFind
Question: "Why Do So Many Ivy League Grads Go to Wall Steet?"
Answer: The well springs of opportunity have dried up!
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:32:15 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: SeekAndFind
Willie Sutton knows.
To: svcw
Because the Ivy League turns them into godless addicted gamblers?
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:39:05 PM PST
by
donna
(I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
To: SeekAndFind
Ivy isn’t about an education. It is about contacts and making friends . Their friends go to Wall Steet so they do.
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:51:25 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/18/2012 1:58:20 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: SeekAndFind
"The proportion of employed new Harvard graduates in finance, for example, dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent between 2008 and 2011"Can that be correct? I would have guessed that it was a steady 100%.
To: jjotto
Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?Precisely, and it was my first thought, as well!
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posted on
02/18/2012 2:39:16 PM PST
by
SuziQ
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