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Jun 03, 20 while the greed and excesses of wall street may not be a surprise, mr. Books similar to the wolf of wall street the wolf of wall. Sep 14, 2017 yahoo finances editors and reporters compiled a list of the best books on wall street. News corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Liars poker is a nonfiction, semiautobiographical book by michael lewis describing the authors experiences as a bond salesman on wall street during the late 1980s. The buy side is wall street meets breaking badexcept that this book is fact not fiction. At the beginning of march 2008, the monetary fabric of bear stearns, one of the worlds oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. Barbara brownings novel the gift follows a trio of performance artists and the eccentrics who turn up over the course of occupy wall streets tenure. The pageturning, inside account of how three kids from florida became bigtime weapons tradersand how the us government turned on them. Former wall street bad boy turney duff confesses 10 of the most outrageous stories of wall street excess hes ever heard or participated in. The movie of the same name was good, but the book about the rise and fall. The son of a mechanical engineer and homemaker, mr. Even if youre not a big reader of wall street books, you still probably know this one.
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