Why do the CEOs of the worlds biggest companies trust the analytical work involved in their acquisitions and divestitures to 22 year old analysts who learned everything they know from a ten week training program?
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Actually a very interesting question
You act like the analysts are unsupervised frat stars with complete and total control over the entire process.
Plausible deniability....
That's why everything analysts produce is proofread 100x by the Associate and VP before even reaching the MD. We just press buttons to make the pretty pictures that support the MD's ideas lol.
They want to make 22yr olds think that so when shit hits the fan they know exactly who to blame
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