What is wrong with Wall Street
by Kim Walker on behalf of Daniel Lubetzky
For further evidence that some bankers just abuse the system, here is a disturbing story about how the Tetragon Financial Group is paying its partners tens of millions even as its fund suffers hundreds of millions.
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