TY - BOOK AU - Roose,Kevin TI - Young money: inside the hidden world of Wall Street's post-crash recruits SN - 9780446583251 (hardcover) AV - HG 4928.5 R781y 2014 U1 - 332.64273 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Stockbrokers KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Investment bankers KW - Inversiones bancarias KW - Investment advisors KW - Asesores de inversiones KW - Nueva York (Estados Unidos) KW - Financial services industry KW - United States KW - Industria de servicios financieros KW - Estados Unidos KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Corredores de bolsa KW - Asesores financieros KW - Crisis financiera global, 2008-2009 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-310) and index N2 - Becoming a Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money--as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. This is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process. Roose's young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs, but they also experience an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work ER -