There is no one who talks quite like Bill Gross, the co-founder of Pimco. He is perhaps the most influential financial manager of the past two decades, yet his stories involve an equal mix of whimsy and sheep-ishness, with fragments of Joni Mitchell songs, Howdy Doody vignettes, and references to classic American diner food offered in the singsong voice of a Dr. Seuss character. But it's his tendency to speak about himself in the third person that takes the most getting used to. "Our Gross has not been a happy camper for the last two months," he says one morning in late March, sighing deeply. "But an unhappy captain still has to steer the ship through thp rorks."
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