My favorite is George Lippman. In this article he's portrayed more as a copy-cat than a financial genius. But he has one of the best quote I've read on the situation. When accused of being a "Chicken Little" regarding the pending financial apocalypse by a Goldman Sachs exec, he responded by saying "Fuck you, I'm short your house."

Sorry, one more from a review of Lewis' book. "Lewis uncovers what could possibly be the single greatest trade that any Wall Street banker ever made: in December 2006 and January 2007, Deutsche's Greg Lippmann paid an insurance premium of 0.28 percentage points to take out insurance on $4 billion of triple-A-rated bonds from Morgan Stanley's Howie Hubler. Less than a year later, that $11 million bet paid off to the tune of a whopping $3.7 billion. That's an annual return of more than 33,000%."