Backstage Wall Street

Joshua M. Brown

Language: English

Published: May 15, 2012

Description:

Chances are you haven't been making the best investing decisions.
Why?
BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WALL STREET WANTS IT

"[T]he always irreverent author of the Reformed Broker blog has written an excellent narrative that shares all of your broker's dirty little secrets. Much like Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker captured the essence of 1980s institutional Wall Street, Brown's Backstage Wall Street recreates the boiler room retail brokerage culture of the 1990s and early 2000s in vivid color."
—FORBES

"With a smirk, a lashing wit, and an appropriate irreverence, Joshua Brown gives voice to what all investment professionals are—or should be—secretly thinking."
—MICHAEL SANTOLI, Barron's columnist

"The pages of this book are filled with colorful exposés of misconduct in the way Wall Street presents and sells itself (and its financial products offerings!). . . . Run don't walk...