Broker turned monk now tends to the soul

ANNA MUDEVA
Reuters
October 1, 2008

TSURNOGORSKI MONASTERY, Bulgaria — Brother Nikanor, a Nasdaq broker turned monk, advises former colleagues to put a jar with soil on their desks to remind them where we are all heading and what matters in life.

As western banks fold into each other and commentators portray the current crisis as the last gasp of modern capitalism, Hristo Mishkov, 32, shares the pain - and offers home truths.

His story partly resembles that of Brother Ty, the monk-tycoon protagonist of the 1998 satire “God is my Broker” by U.S. writers Christopher Buckley and John Tierney - he failed on Wall Street and became a monk. the rest