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Salomon Brothers

A major American investment bank, among the most influential on Wall Street in the 1980s.

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders, Jack Schwager

Explained in

• The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders, Jack Schwager
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Roger Lowenstein

  An American investment bank and one of the biggest bond traders of the 1980s. Meriwether's team worked there before the fund was created.

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis

  An American investment bank where Michael Lewis worked as a bond salesman in the 1980s. It later became part of Citigroup.

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