"We’re not selling," Marcus snapped. "We're holding the position."
The original “Whore of Babylon” (Revelation 17) sits on many waters, drunk on the blood of saints. In the 1980s, Michael Milken was called a “junk bond whore.” In the 1990s, female analysts who dated traders were “floor whores.” By 2010, the term had mutated: a “whore” on Wall Street wasn’t a prostitute. She was a woman who succeeded by playing the men’s game better than they did. The Whore of Wall Street 201403-19-10 Min
In the collective imagination, the modern "Whore of Wall Street" is the woman who uses the oldest profession’s tactics—seduction, manipulation, and false intimacy—to execute a "We’re not selling," Marcus snapped