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Damn, it Feels Good to Be a Banker: And Other Baller Things You Only Get to Say If You Work On Wall Street
by Leveraged Sellout
from Hyperion
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Decent, but there are better banker books out there. 
This book has some good selected moments, however, I would recommend Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle instead. It is consistently funnier and more accurate, painting a truer version of what it's really like to be a junior banker.
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Government Cheese for Wall St. 
The US economy is in disarray. The dollar is depreciating. The Europeans are laughing at us. Wall Street's elitists are taking government handouts. Investment banking is dead. Capitalism is dead. Private equity IRRs are down owing to defunct credit markets. Lehman and Bear bankers are all jobless. Merrill evaporated to pixie dust. No longer is there any appeal to banking or private equity. How can one tout a profession that is all out of a job where bonuses are cut to zero? We are in a very sad state. It... more info
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A working definition of Schadenfreude... 
I pity poor old "Leveraged Sellout", which would be the most wounding thing one could do to him ("one" being a person not blessed enough to work in front office advisory M&A at a bulge bracket investment bank), but only for his timing. After the events of September 2008 it's going to be a while before anyone preens about working in a Bulge Bracket investment bank on Wall Street. At this point (still in September 2008) there are only two left, one (Morgan Stanley) looking likely to go the way of all... more info
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Awesome!
Having been a massive fan of the website the book was always going to be great fun! The guy who wrote it clearly got bullied at school..
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