Tear Jerk: The Guy From 9/11
Tear Jerk: The Guy From 9/11 “Who is Howard Lutnick and what is his greater purpose?” Greg Olear Sep 8 I’ll cry until you suspect my tears. You’re not the only one who can turn it on When you need it. —Elvis Costello, “Suspect My Tears” ~~~ Every piece at PREVAIL is free to read and always will be. No paywalls, ever. Your generous support keeps it that way. Thank you! Twenty-five years ago, Cantor Fitzgerald occupied the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center—six stories higher than where, at 8:46 am in the morning of September 11, 2001, a hijacked American Airlines commercial flight would make impact at 450 miles an hour. Although he’d been the head of that “very sharp-elbowed” ¹ financial services firm since 1991, and a familiar figure on Wall Street for years before that, Howard Lutnick did not enter the wider public consciousness until that fateful Tuesday. Certainly that’s the first time I’d heard of him. There was Lutnick on the news programs two days later, with his...
