I was in a meeting with one of them, and a few other
traders, and they were talking about the new hedge-fund
regulations. Most everyone on Wall Street thought they
were a bad idea. “But isn’t it better for the system as a
whole?” I asked. The room went quiet, and my boss shot me
a withering look. I remember his saying, “I don’t have
the brain capacity to think about the system as a whole.
All I’m concerned with is how this affects our company.”