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salomon brothers was a wall street investment bank, known as a bulge bracket company.
salomon brothers foi um banco de investimentos de wall street, incluído entre os melhores do mundo .

in assessing which of these pressures—shareholder power or pricing power—drove the process, we should note how ready the treasury, fed and wall street executives have been to crush shareholder interests during the credit crunch, yet how resolutely they sought to protect the levels of leverage of the bulge-bracket banks during the bubble.
ao avaliar qual dessas pressões – o poder dos acionistas ou o poder de estabelecer preços – deu impulso ao processo, é preciso observar quão prontos estavam os executivos do tesouro, do fed e de wall street para pisotear os interesses dos acionistas durante a crise do crédito, mas quão resolutamente tentaram proteger os níveis de alavancagem dos maiores bancos de investimento durante a bolha.