Extreme Money

During the Great Depression, finance was unfashionable: ‘Don’t tell my mother I’m a banker, she thinks I play piano in a brothel.’ Now, the best and brightest business school, mathematics, science and computing graduates took jobs on Wall Street: ‘When it’s profit you’re after, why go after it the hard way? I intend to be a stockbroker … One attempts to make the most money with the least work.’¹

In Lucy Prebble’s play Enron, the character Jeffrey Skilling, Harvard MBA, CEO of Enron and soon to be convicted felon, outlines the basis of the new economy: ‘the only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren’t smart enough to do ...