What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

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Chapter 1: Good Time Charlie : Part 1
The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed and the glory - this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen.

Chapter 1: Good Time Charlie : Part 2
The other thing I think that might've helped that decision was the death of Eddie Lynch. He died in 1938. And Lynch and Merrill had had some conflicts in the twenties and Merrill wasn't too eager to go through that again.

Chapter 1: Good Time Charlie : Part 3
But this was Merrill's background. He backed J. C. Penney. He backed Newbury. He was a good friend of Frank Woolworth. When he came back to Wall Street in 1940, after he left in '29, he wanted to do the same thing at Merrill Lynch that he did at Safeway.

The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed and the glory - this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen.

For those who want to understand how Wall Street became what it is, who want to know the biggest deals really happened, who wish they had been a fly on the wall when it all went down, this is the book.

Eric J. Weiner is a financial journalist and former Wall Street reporter for the Dow Jones News Service. His stories have appeared in countless publications, from the Wall Street Journal to the Village Voice. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Paige..

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