The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780770437169 (0770437168)
Publish date: June 4th 2013
Publisher: Crown Business
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
“DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU HATE: sex, alcohol, happy hour, models, ecstasy, cocaine, pornography, mature hookers, wall street mafia, drug addicts, alcoholics, NYC nightlife, insider trading, hazing, seven figure bonus checks, fake muggings, $25k birthday parties, one night stands, ABC Carpet, sec...
I think that novels or memoirs about Wall Street are becoming the new "it" thing. However, Turney Duff's "The Buy Side" though at first enlightening about Wall Street pretty soon just turned into a seedy look at a drug addict. As other reviewers have noted Mr. Duff writes very well. This was not a h...
Why do ex-traders need to write memoirs as some form of therapy and expect us to somehow understand them and sympathise with them AND buy into their lifestyle and excesses since they never seem to learn from their mistakes?