The Man Who Could Salvage Wall Street
By Rick Newman Rick Newman – Fri Oct 9, 1:26 pm ET
Are all bankers evil? Maybe not. Over the past year, it's become fashionable to trash Wall Street for unbridled greed and the rapacious use of billions in taxpayer bailout funds. Much of the outrage is justified, since Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup stoked the flames that nearly torched the entire economy. But there's been rough justice for a few of those firms, now either defunct or de facto wards of the state.
