It was easy for this man to fool himself that Europe was a lot like New York, because on two thousand dollars a day it was. So London became the key link in this drive for world domination; its time zone, its history, its language, its relative political stability, its large pools of dollar-hungry capital and Harrods (don’t underestimate the importance of shopping opportunities in all this) made London central to the plans of all American investment bankers. And the global aspirations of Salomon Brothers settled in London.
