Lewis’s tone is tense and powerful. His story depicts some of the richest men in Wall Street. Gutfreund manages the firm dubbing him the King of Wall Street, but Meriwether is the best and most risky trader on Salomon making him the King of the Game. Gutfeund is admired as almost God-like, “others who couldn’t imagine John Gutfreund as anything but omnipotent.” And Meriwether is admired by all “once they got onto Meriwether’s trading desk, however, they forgot they were supposed to be detached intellectuals.” The Salomon trading floor is an intense environment all around, “at any moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond
Lewis’s tone is tense and powerful. His story depicts some of the richest men in Wall Street. Gutfreund manages the firm dubbing him the King of Wall Street, but Meriwether is the best and most risky trader on Salomon making him the King of the Game. Gutfeund is admired as almost God-like, “others who couldn’t imagine John Gutfreund as anything but omnipotent.” And Meriwether is admired by all “once they got onto Meriwether’s trading desk, however, they forgot they were supposed to be detached intellectuals.” The Salomon trading floor is an intense environment all around, “at any moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond