The Yankee banking houses : Clark Dodge and Jay Cooke
"Our crowd" : the Seligmans, Lehman Brothers, and Kuhn Loeb
White shoes and racehorses : Brown Brothers Harriman and August Belmont
Crashed and absorbed : Kidder Peabody and Dillon Read
Corner of Broad and Wall : J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley
Corner of Wall and Main : Merrill Lynch and E.F. Hutton
Unraveled by greed : Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham
The last holdouts : Goldman Sacchs and Lazard Freres.
