Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

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Becoming a young 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.

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Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash...

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Overview

Becoming a young 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.

YOUNG MONEY
Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

YOUNG MONEY is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer and author of the critically acclaimed The Unlikely Disciple, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and other 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 that have always characterized Wall Street life. But they experience something new, too: 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.

YOUNG MONEY is more than an exposé of excess; it's the story of how the financial crisis changed a generation-and remade Wall Street from the bottom up.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
01/13/2014
In highly entertaining and impressive fashion, New York magazine business writer Roose (The Unlikely Disciple) shadows eight young, ambitious college graduates from various walks of life as they embark on careers as Wall Street analysts. In the three years that Roose follows and befriends Arjun, Chelsea, Derrick, Jeremy, Samson, Richardo, Soo-jin, and J.P., their bright-eyed enthusiasm gives way to exhaustion, struggles with abusive environments and bosses, suicidal thoughts, and disillusionment with the world of finance. Roose’s vivid prose brings these stories to life as his subjects forge their way in the adult world of high finance and life in New York City, navigating workloads, relationships, sex, booze and drugs, the meaning of life, and their conflicting desires for security, prestige, money, intellectual stimulation, and purpose. Through Roose’s intimate portraits, readers see not only a snapshot of “millennial” life in this privileged sector, but also an industry in transformation since the 2008 financial collapse. Roose’s captivating read is sure to appeal to readers young and old who are interested in the zeitgeist of Wall Street since the crash. Agent: Sloan Harris and Kari Stuart, ICM. (Feb.)
Kirkus Reviews
2014-01-12
It's not all beer and skittles on Wall Street. After all, writes New York business and technology reporter Roose, a budding Rockefeller needs to be able to "write a coherent memo to your boss after your third or fourth Jäger Bomb." When they're not imbibing Jäger or Red Bull by the gallon, the eight young Wall Streeters whom the author profiles are working around the clock—literally, in one instance, a stint of "110 hours in a row, without setting foot outside the building." One hopes the boss was appreciative, though, by Roose's account, the young people who have flocked to Wall Street are often badly used, caught up in power struggles among middle management and little appreciated. The author often takes an offhand, anecdotal approach; sometimes the effect is too breezy, but at other times it captures the daily indignities to which the junior capitalists are subjected. On the other hand, as he recognizes, no one made them take the gig. The better part of the book is sociological in nature: Roose examines the trends that have governed the world of finance since the great collapse of 2008, which exposed not just weaknesses in financial governance, but also the fundamental whiteness and maleness of the system, to say nothing of the disproportionate representation of graduates of Wharton. To gauge by his observations, the culture of Wall Street was once a strange cocoon now laid open: Until the crash, even a loser could count on lasting two years before being let go, but now, among youngsters anyway, the atmosphere is one of fear and uncertainty—just like in the rest of the economy, in other words. It is instructive to note that after the bloodletting that followed the collapse, only a few of his subjects remain in high finance, while most Wall Street firms are having trouble recruiting the best and the brightest. Of particular interest to young people contemplating a career in investment banking and trading, though with plenty of discouraging news.
From the Publisher
Praise for The Unlikely Disciple:

"Well-written, thoughtful, and surprisingly three-dimensional . . . The charm and emotional heft of Roose's book lies in his honesty. . . a refreshing cease-fire in the wearying culture wars, likely holding surprises for anyone-theist, atheist, or somewhere in between." —A.V. Club, The Onion

"[A] vivid, sunny, and skeptical portrait of life among the saved." —New York Times

"What makes THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE remarkable is that it doesn't take the cheap shot or make the easy joke . . . never anything but fair." —DailyBeast.com

"Very funny . . . I loved this book." —Slate.com

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446583251
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 2/18/2014
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 61513
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose is a business and technology writer for New York magazine and NYMag.com. Previously, he was a staff reporter for the New York Times, where he covered Wall Street for the business section and for DealBook, the Times' award-winning financial news site. He is the author of The Unlikely Disciple, and his writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, ESPN: The Magazine, and other major publications.

More info on Kevin can be found at www.kevinroose.com or you can follow him on Twitter: @kevinroose.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2014

    I Also Recommend:

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    This is a remarkable book. It is incredibly well researched and

    This is a remarkable book. It is incredibly well researched and really gives a glimpse into the path of young minds recruited into the Wall Street world. High marks. It is well written and easy to get wrapped up in.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    Unique

    I don't usually list pros and cons of a book, but it seems fitting here:
    Pros-
    1. Interesting behind-the-scenes of (mostly) recent graduates, trying to make it in NYC.
    2. Makes me have a better understandung (deeper appreciation?) for sacrifices they made with family, etc., rather than just being egotistical, wealthy men.
    3. Although names were changed, the book was very realistic.
    Cons-
    1. I am used to reading books where each chapter focuses on a different character, but since these characters didn't interact with each other, I found it difficult to remember who was who after a few chapters. Perhaps the book could've been sectioned differently...?
    2. Besides giving an interesting behind-the-scenes perspective, there wasn't much anticipation building throughout the story. The climax fell short.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    A must read for anyone interested in modern day finance.

    Great book, I enjoyed it immensely. The book gives a very personal and up close look at the motivations and aspirations of the young people seeking to make careers in the modern day financial industry. This book will be best appreciated if it is read in conjunction with the book "All the Devils Are Here" also available at Barnes&Noble.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2014

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