Ms. Baridis makes reference to lvan Boesky and Michael Milken, the “greed is good” Wall Street icons of the 1980s. It has been fifteen years since Drexel Burnham, the Wall Street investment banking firm, collapsed into bankruptcy under the weight of its investment in risky businesses via what became a household word for the 1980s: junk bonds. Micheal Milken, the Wharton MBA who was the mastermind behind the risky financial instruments used to fund takeovers for the sake of takeovers, would enter a guity plea to six of the ninety-eight felony charges brought against him by the federal government and, after paying a $600 million fine, serve two years in prison. The New York Times report that the young investment bankers who worked at Drexel at the time of its collapse have done very well, most of them on