“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them they outvoted me.”
The author acknowledges the decision made by Jamie Dimon, Steven Black, and James Boshart to prevent me from having this book published in 1994 while I was still a managing director at Citi. Perhaps if it had been no one would have thought to re-read it 2025. My former colleagues and compet- itors in the world of municipal finance opened my eyes to the many issues written about herein. Conceptually I am thus grateful for their rampant venality. Please note when I rescued this text from my mother’s basement I was not able to locate the pages with either the references or the footnotes. I have done my best to replicate the references list and take full responsibility if I missed one or two. (Thanks to ChatGPT, Claude.ai and Grok for provide assistance with the references recreation task.)
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