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promotion. They lost their hold on capital.

This happened every day in almost

every financial institution, over and

over, until we ended up with a very

specific kind of person running things.”

Curry is a Harvard Business School

grad and, with his wife, Celerie

Kemble, a Palm Beach–born designer, a

prominent fixture on New York political

and social scenes. Which is to say

that he would seem to be a card-carrying

member of what he calls the “go-go

aggressive” crowd, and an unlikely advocate

for the importance of introverts.

But one thing he’s not shy about is his

thesis that it was forceful extroverts

who caused the global financial crash.

“People with certain personality

types got control of capital and institutions

and power,” Curry told me. “And

people who are congenitally more cautious

and introverted and statistical in

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