The Trading Game Quotes

“The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house. The rich use that money to buy the rest of the assets from the middle class and then the problem gets worse every year. The middle class disappears, spending power disappears permanently from the economy, the rich becoming much fucking richer and the poor, well, I guess they just die.”
― Gary Stevenson, The Trading Game: A Confession

“The best job a concert pianist can get nowadays is trader for Citibank. It pays very well.”
― Gary Stevenson, The Trading Game: A Confession

“I'd believed it when the teachers back at school had told me: study hard and do well in your exams and you will get a good job. I had been an idiot. I had been a fool.”
― Gary Stevenson, The Trading Game