The Insider Story

MARGARET LAWS

“I never thought he’d make it. I thought he didn’t have the personality. In social situations he’d just sort of stand there with his shoulders hunched and his hands in his pockets, with this fixed grin on his face. He had his own ideas, but you could never really figure out where he was coming from. He was a loner.”—A former bond-trader remembers Michael Milken from the early 1970s.