Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)

The 2008 financial crisis wasn’t exactly responsible for what was going on, but it had played a role. Investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley that had once taken the most interesting trading risks had become clunkier and more heavily regulated. They were being shoved into the boring Wall Street role once played by the big commercial

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all these Wall Street companies Sam had never heard of came to the job fair that year inside the MIT gym. And he became just a little curious about them. Even a few months earlier his curiosity would have surprised him. He’d never had the slightest interest in money. He neither knew nor cared about finance. Apart from a firmly held idea that he sho