Friday, February 8, 2019

Monkey Business

The subtitle is Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle and the authors are John Rolfe and Peter Troob (2000).

I bought this book a long time ago when I cared about investment banking.  It does a wonderful job of describing the nonsense of that day-to-day existence.  Glorified brokerage, arts and crafts, and throwing shit at a wall.  Just a terrible profession.
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