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4 Feb 2026 Conversations with Tyler Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929
“Interestingly, Carter Glass, who I think I told you before was sort of akin to an Elizabeth Warren — the truth is, he would have been a racist Elizabeth Warren because he was from Virginia.”
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…Or is that also the same, that there’s maybe the appearance of being more woke, but ultimately, attitudes on gender or race are more similar than one might think? Or not? Oh goodness. I’m struggling to relate the word wokeness to the 1920s. Interestingly, Carter Glass, who I think I told you before was sort of akin to an Elizabeth Warren — the truth is, he would have been a racist Elizabeth Warren because he was from Virginia. He was trying to bring segregation back to America, in fact. I’m not sure how woke these CEOs were at the time. The sort of upstairs-downstairs situation among the elites and the wealth in terms of where they lived and how they lived, and who worked for them and the various servants and others — I don’t think you’d think that they were that woke back then. So that’s one difference. Did they do philanthropy better? You have the Morgan Library in New York, everything Carnegie did, which seems quite remarkable. Are today’s wealthy business leaders living up to that track record? Or somehow they’re failing to?…
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