• 01 Dec 2008 at 10:26 AM

Dick Fuld: Poseur?

By Bess Levin

Picture 274.pngWhat, like upper middle class Jews from Westchester can’t play for Team Poor in Class Warfare?

[Fuld was]…under the powerful influence of Lew Glucksman. Glucksman was a gifted, ferocious trader, driven, in large part, by bristling class resentment. The principal targets of Glucksman’s ire were the firm’s investment bankers, the Waspy Ivy Leaguers who dropped names and chatted up CEOs.
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Despite having been raised in Westchester’s upper-middle class, Fuld seemed to absorb Glucksman’s class resentments….

I know we’re all scared of him, but knowing that he was in fact an upper middle class Jew from Westchester, picturing this just has to make you laugh.

…– “Fucking bankers,” he called them.

Earlier: Dick Fuld: Aptly-Named Villain Or Just A Misunderstood Girl With An Eating Disorder?

Comments (10)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM

    Fuld is a complete prick.
    Check out the second row:
    http://tinyurl.com/6qp3nk
    LOL

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 10:45 AM

    @1
    Fuld would kick your ass so hard you’d be begging for your mama. I hope he will.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM

    never trust a male boss under 5 foot 9.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM

    Hofstra, Coloarado….they left off another NJ College where 20+ in Fix Inc were from
    “The place has two many Joeys from Brooklyn…..”
    -Quote from the Vault ca. 1998

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM

    4 Guess it wasn’t Princeton. But seriously, think of the skill set necessary in sales and trading. Ivy or near ivy is no indicator of success.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 11:48 AM

    “…two many Joeys?”
    Was that quote from a Brooklyn Joey?

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM

    Only people who went to Ivy League schools think it matters because so much of their identity is where they went to college. Trust me, Ive worked with a ton of morons from HBS, Princeton, you name it. Anyone can regurgitate a textbook, Id rather be street smart.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 12:38 PM

    I hear you on Ivy
    However, the quote is less about smarts and more about style, demeanor and presence….
    Lehman had two many guys who just didnt fit the part….

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    It was Jeff Van DerBeek, COO of Fix Inc
    and its Bloomfield Colleg, NJ
    We used to be amazed howmy guys from this place were on the desk
    ps,
    “two” was actual spelling

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | December 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    It was Jeff Van DerBeek, COO of Fix Inc
    and its Bloomfield Colleg, NJ
    We used to be amazed howmy guys from this place were on the desk
    ps,
    “two” was actual spelling

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