I’ve known Anthony Scaramucci, the hedge fund manager and erstwhile presidential advisor, for more than a decade now, and I’ve written about The Mooch, as he is known, for almost that long. And while Scaramucci drew some criticism for following a number of Wall Streeters into the Trump Administration, I’ve always found him to be smart and self-deprecating. He’s also easy to root for. He’s the son of a Long Island crane operator who made it into Tufts, Harvard Law School and Goldman Sachs and then founded Skybridge, his hedge fund of funds. His cousins install auto glass and hunt for clams in Oyster Bay. He’s a unique combination of E.Q. and I.Q., brains and brawn and one of the best read people I know, with a Rolodex to boot.