I thought I was writing a period piece about the 1980s in America. Not for a moment did I suspect that the financial 1980s would last two full decades longer or that the difference in degree between Wall Street and ordinary life would swell into a difference in kind.
I’ve always thought it odd that everyone thinks of the ’80s as the “decade of greed” … the way I see it, those values simply went mainstream during the ’90s and Naughties.
