It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time.
In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairmen Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar\'s poker for one million dollars..
As he has continued to do for a quarter century, Michael Lewis here shows us how things really worked on Wall Street.
From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars\' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.
In it Lewis describes his own rake\'s progress Through a powerful investment bank.
This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have of those heady, frenzied years.
After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poured in your lap.
It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time
