The moral calculations of a billionaire

Eli Saslow

The Washington Post

BOCA RATON, Fla. — The stock market had been open for only 17 minutes when Leon Cooperman picked up the phone to check how much money he’d made. He dialed a private line to his trading desk in New Jersey, just as he did a dozen times each day.

“Decent start to the morning?” he asked.

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