On a sweltering morning in late July Mary Calla-han Erdoes is running on just three hours of sleep-and running late for an interview. She can't locate the nanny for her three kids (ages 9, 7 and 4), probably because the nanny thought Erdoes would return not early this morning but the day after from meetings in Europe with Russian billionaires and German financiers. Her homecoming gift: an urgent e-mail (subject line: "Help") from a client who was about to buy a company and needed her take on how currencies would react to the news of a second bailout for Greece. "Now I am here with you," she tells me, friendly enough, but hinting this won't be a leisurely meeting. "This whole week has been a blur."
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