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Testosterone rears its ugly head on floor of NYSE

Stephan Mara, a NYSE floor broker whose family owns part of the New York Giants, was suspended for two weeks following an outburst of unbridled testosterone-fueled rage.

According
(subscription required) to The Wall Street Journal, "His infraction: pinning another broker to a trading post for several seconds in December after the victim chided him after a Giants loss."

Classy. You have to wonder about the role that testosterone plays in business, and whether it has a negative influence. In his interesting book Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, Christopher Byron makes the case that Jack Welch, Dennis Kozlowski, Ronald Perelman and Al Dunlap weren't really bad people: Just victims of their own excessive testosterone.

Perhaps Mr. Mara could have plead temporary insanity and called in Byron as an expert witness. How else do you explain pinning someone to a trading post over a football score?

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