David Rivers—A Memorable Editorial Voice
It took considerably more than one beer for me to persuade David Rivers to abandon the security of the Dow Jones Capital Markets Report (and an occasional Wall Street Journal byline). The proposition was that he should join a small publishing company and launch a newsletter on the business of foreign exchange—not FX rates, mind you, but the FX business. Characteristically, David was anxious (and, also characteristically, his anxiety animated his whole body). But he agreed, and in the summer of
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