Tim Stenovec

raining like you're in the rainforest and it was fabulous or just like the desert for months.

There's nothing.

Because you'd go to these places looking for stuff and then you'd go through all these boxes and there'd be nothing and then you'd be so depressed and then magically something would happen.

I mean, I will say there was one moment for me still that I think was just like a true aha, which is one of the main characters of the book is Carter Glass, of course, Glass-Steagall.

He was a senator in Virginia.

And I think I had an impression going in, you know, today, that bill is often held up by Elizabeth Warren, other people as this sort of pure effort to really break up the banks for all the right reasons.

And I found a trove of correspondence that showed, I think, maybe for the first time that, in fact, parts of that bill were actually written by another banker trying to

frankly, to screw over JP Morgan.

And you think to yourself about, you know, money in Washington and lobbying.

And I thought, oh, the good old days, they didn't do things like that.

And it's no different.

Evangeline Adams is an astrologer.

She had an office up at Carnegie Hall on 57th Street and

And every banker in town would go visit with her.

She had a newsletter.

I mean, I like to think Dealbook is successful.

She had a newsletter with 100,000 subscribers back then.

People would go visit with her.

They'd pay $50 an hour to sit with her.

And she would ask her, what's going on with the stock market?