Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits - Brossura

Roose, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 1455577715 ISBN 13: 9781455577712

Casa editrice: Grand Central Publishing, 2014

Riassunto

Every summer, thousands of top college graduates pack their bags and head to Wall Street to start new lives as investment bankers and traders. Even after massive economic collapse, a career in the financial industry remains a tempting path for many of America's best and brightest. But what happens to these financiers-in-the-making once they get down to business?

YOUNG MONEY is an unprecedented (and unauthorised) trip inside the well-guarded subculture of the young investment bankers and traders who have come to work on Wall Street since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Kevin Roose spent more than three years shadowing eight first and second-year workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and other leading investment firms. Through hundreds of interviews and mountains of original reporting, Roose became a fly-on-the-wall for the college recruiting sessions, pre-hire training programs, 100-hour workweeks, big bonuses, and wild parties that characterise the young Wall Street experience. But he also saw the self-doubt and soul-searching that seeped into the financial industry after the crisis, and the psychological effects that the industry's struggles had on twenty-somethings whose careers were just getting started. YOUNG MONEY is more than just a sordid cultural exposé filled with 'models and bottles' excess; it is also an accessible look at the financial world's bottom rung, and the story of how the economic collapse changed a genreation's attitude toward money and success.

In the same way that Scott Turow painted a vivid portrait of first-year Harvard Law students in One L, YOUNG MONEY reveals the undiluted voices of the young people on the front lines who are poised to rebuild Wall Street from the ground up.

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Praise for The Unlikely Disciple:

"Well-written, thoughtful, and surprisingly three-dimensional . . . The charm and emotional heft of Roose's book lies in his honesty. . . a refreshing cease-fire in the wearying culture wars, likely holding surprises for anyone-theist, atheist, or somewhere in between." --A.V. Club, The Onion

"[A] vivid, sunny, and skeptical portrait of life among the saved." --New York Times

"What makes THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE remarkable is that it doesn't take the cheap shot or make the easy joke . . . never anything but fair." --DailyBeast.com

"Very funny . . . I loved this book." --Slate.com

Descrizione del libro:

From Kevin Roose, the New York magazine columnist and brilliant author of our critically-acclaimed The Unlikely Disciple, comes YOUNG MONEY - a remarkably gripping narrative exploration of the secret lives of young, post-crash bankers on Wall Street.

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• Editore: Grand Central Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1455577715
• ISBN 13: 9781455577712
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336