这是将华尔街合作伙伴变成公共公司的另一个结果：它将它们变成了投机的对象。银行的社会和经济相关性不再使它变得太大而无法失败，而是对其进行的侧面赌注数量。
(This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.)
