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Wall Street Lives, Dies by Overconfidence: Gladwell

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 20, 2009 4:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – Confidence is key to the banking game, but an overabundance of it seems to have made the industry’s titans so delusional they blundered into the financial crisis, Malcolm Gladwell writes in the New Yorker. “The roots of Wall Street’s crisis were not...   Read full story »

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