![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author quite obviously dislikes and has nothing but contempt for the banking industry - he resigned from Salomon Brothers to write this book but at the time was still married to Diana de Cordova, an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. The book is highly recommended for lots of open-mouthed, "geez, people act like that", say things like that moments and because Michael Lewis, as always, knows his subject well and writes about it in a very entertaining and non-dry way. What results is either extreme wealth and satisfaction - probably quite a few of these people are psychopaths or guilt and a change in career, or they become just like the American Psycho, a rather fun fictional book on the ultimate psycho on Wall Street. ![]() Liar's Poker is the ultra high-stakes game played in Wall Street companies by the brokers with the obscenely high commissions they get from trading in the investment market. Is he going to become very rich and very corrupt? Will I care as much when it is my son and not my money? My son who is in his last year at law school has a job already with Goldman Sachs. He says he'll phone me when he finds a new company. He said they wanted to put the commission and charges clients pay up too much and that it has become Corruption Central. Update On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, I got a call, my banker that sounds weird, I'm not sure of the term, but the guy who looks after my account resigned from Morgan Stanley. ![]()
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