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Page i On Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir Henry Kaufman

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Page ii Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kaufman, Henry. On money and markets: a Wall Street memoir / by Henry Kaufman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-07-136049-2 1. Kaufman, Henry. 2. Capitalists and financiersUnited StatesBiography. 3. FinanceUnited StatesHistory20th century. I. Title. HG172.K38 A3 2000 332'.092dc21 [B] 99-086024 Copyright 2000 by Henry Kaufman. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. e-ISBN 71376623 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN 0-07-136049-2. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ("McGraw-Hill") and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work, you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works based upon, transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish or sublicense the work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill's prior consent. You may use the work for your own noncommercial and personal use; any other use of the work is strictly prohibited. Your right to use the work may be terminated if you fail to comply with these terms. THE WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS". McGRAW-HILL AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF OR RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE ACCESSED THROUGH THE WORK VIA HYPERLINK OR OTHERWISE, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. McGraw-Hill and its licensors do not warrant or guarantee that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. Neither McGraw-Hill nor its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom. McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed through the work. Under no circumstances shall McGraw-Hill and/or its licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or similar damages that result from the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim or cause whatsoever whether such claim or cause arises in contract, tort or otherwise. DOI: 10.1036/e-ISBN 71376623 This book is printed on recycled, acid-free paper containing a minimum of 50% recycled, de-inked fiber.

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Page iii To my parents and grandparents, who were always there for me in my formative years. And to my wife, Elaine, and my sons, Glenn, Craig, and Daniel, who have enriched my life since.

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Page v Foreword By Paul A. Volcker Ordinarily on a long plane trip my priority is sleeping. Not on my last flight to Tokyo. I took along a draft of Henry Kaufman's memoir. It kept me not only awake but fascinated. I cannot claim scholarly detachment and lack of bias. I have counted Henry as a close friend and trusted professional colleague for forty years. We are close in age. We were both apprenticed in the same institutionthe Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which for many years has educated budding financial economists for a role on Wall Street. Our subsequent careers followed different but parallel tracks. In many respects our thinking has overlapped. For all of that, I will not be alone in finding On Money and Markets both an important book and a lively read. It provides fresh and striking insights into Wall Street and some of the people and institutions that populate it. It compels attention to its analysis of the implicationsboth highly promising and potentially dangerousof global finance. And it reveals a warm and affecting human story of a man who has found so much in America and has returned so much to his adopted land. Henry Kaufman, born in a bucolic German village, was one of many children who found their normal life turned upside down by Nazi terror. Without significant resources his family suddenly had to adjust to the very different and difficult environment of life in New York City. Like many of his refugee contemporaries, Henry seldom spoke of those troubled times, at least not to friends who hadn't shared that experiencethose of whom he writes, with a tinge of longing, as having lives flowing, "with a peaceful and predictable rhythm. Born into well situated families (with)... know(n) career paths at an early age."

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