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I don’t have time to post cold, hard facts that would show once and for all that while some firms start off in EY, the really big ones have to move out of there to grow to world beater size.
Teva Pharmaceuticals is huge. Why? Because it bought, among other firms, the firm that made the generic erythromycin, to say nothing of the hydrogen peroxide, that I was treated with 35 years ago. That is, an old, established American firm, along with old, established Irish, Hungarian etc firms.
I could go on and on with more examples like this.
EY is a stifling environment for business, and any brainpower advantages pale now when compared to the Far East.
In any case, EY’s finest and most enterprising are in the US, Eastern Europe, the Far East and everywhere else. So are the Israeli crime families. I was embarrassed to speak Ivrit in Budapest because everyone else who did in the center of the city was visibly involved in the gambling or illicit entertainment trade.