Rating: 
Summary: The best book on the subject available.
Review: This novel is
quite simply the best that money can buy on the subject.
I lost count the number of times that I laugh aloud while
reading it.
Rating:
Summary: Surreal and hilarious bond-trading yarn
Review: Unputdownable and laugh out loud funny, I read this book in a day and a half. Unlike Liar's Poker, there's no attempt to explain the bonds being traded, instead Bronson seems convinced that not even the market participants really understand them and focuses on having some fun, and quickly!The sales managers are ogres, the bond salesmen themselves tortured heroes, or bastards, or idiots, or sometimes a combination of 2 or 3 of those, with some telepathic or clairvoyant skills thrown in if it will make things move along quicker. Revenge is sweet, and consumed often, served hot or cold. Stress nearly kills several characters, and ruins the life of many more. Relationships are as short and destructive as possible. But it's "cartoon violence" and the whole way the jokes keep coming thick and fast, and you're laughing so much that people are starting to ask what the hell you're reading! It's a wild ride, and hard to get off once you're on board. Read it!
Rating:
Summary: Hilarious AND Educational
Review: Very fun and nasty satire of brokerage houses written by a briefly former insider. It's more of a fictional sociological study of the men and few women bond brokers of a San Francisco brokerage house. Standard types are presented, along with the motivations that drive them, and the lies by which they unload dubious securities. In all this Bronson is really going after the entire system which allows firms to profit massively from insane schemes and financial failures. Everything goes wacky at Atlantic Pacific when a new, young salesman appears on the floor. He ignores the rules, has the nature of a master salesman, and throws the system in a tizzy. It's all pretty over the top, but fun stuff with more than a kernel of truth.
Rating:
Summary: Funny, very easy read ... and true
Review: Why you shouldn't trust your broker, or get a job in the industry! Po Bronson worked in the business and his account rings true.
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