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1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) |
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text file rda |
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Becoming a Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money--as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. This is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process. Roose's young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs, but they also experience an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work.--From publisher description. |
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A business columnist at "New York" magazine explores the secret lives of college graduates working on Wall Street in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-310) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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New York Stock Exchange. |
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Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) |
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2008-2009 |
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Stockbrokers -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Investment bankers -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Investment advisors -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Financial services industry -- United States.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Financial services industry. |
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Investment advisors. |
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Investment bankers. |
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Stockbrokers. |
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Investment Banking. |
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Finanskrisen 2008-2009. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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United States. |
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Förenta staterna -- New York. |
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Electronic books. |
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Roose, Kevin. Young money New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2014 9780446583251 (DLC) 2013032580 (OCoLC)843858578 |
| ISBN |
9781455551743 : $81.00 |
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1455551740 : $81.00 |
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