I was looking at the J.P. Morgan entry on Wikipedia and remembered one of the more odd moments in my life…
One of my doctors is next door to the JP Morgan mansion (now the Morgan Library and Museum) at 36th and Madison…
I was passing in front of Morgan’s mansion and ran into Michael Milken who I had meet in Greenwich while serving as the editor of the Greenwich Roundtable…
Mr. Milken was on his way somewhere or other and I spent several minutes pitching him on an early prototype of the Multiple-Markets system…
I remember thinking that I’m talking to one of financial history’s most important figures in front of the home of another of financial history’s most important figures…
I would have loved to have been an observer to a conversation between Mr. Morgan and Mr. Milken… Mr. Orderly Rationalization and Mr. Creative Destruction… cognitive dissonance… different ways to organize economies and society …
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