Weill You Were Sleeping Through The Market
October 26, 2006 at 3:48 pm
With the Dow Jones soaring again, it’s hard to imagine there was a time when not everyone had some form of investment instrument in the stock market.
In his new book, “The Real Deal,” Sandy Weill, who built Citigroup, brings us back to the late ’50s when he began transforming banking, investement, and markets:
As we opened our doors, there were about fifteen million individuals in the United States actively buying stocks — that number was less than 10 percent of the country’s population but was up sharply from only about five million at the start of the 1950s.
Read an excerpt from Weil’s book by clicking here.
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