The Wall Street Crisis:

 

 

Part-time Lehigh professor, Wight Martindale, a Lehigh alumnus, knows the Wall Street scene well.  A former institution bond salesman for Lehman Brothers on Wall Street and one time financial editor for Business Week, he founded the West Fourth Street Advisors and also served as managing director of high yield and distress securities at Guggenheim Capital Markets.  An English major and a running star while at Lehigh, Martindale went back to graduate school in mid-life, and in 1995 he earned his Ph.D. in English from NYU.  His book about street- hoops in Greenwich Village, Inside the Cage: A Season at West 4th Street’s Legendary Tournament,” was published to critical acclaim 2006.