Reading true stories from Wall Street’s past that provide real insight into how institutional markets work is a must. Innovation, failure, genius and greed all played their part - but putting ...

As the book reveals, there are so many ways to game the market without risk that it almost inspires laughter. Israel hung out in bars and played Bud Fox, getting tips about acquisitions and other ...

Wall Street attracts a certain breed of individual. If you like brands maybe you work at P&G. If you like apparel maybe you’ll go to Nike or Under Armour. If you like software, there’s Silicon ...

How Wall Street Is Still Rigging the Game. 5 minute read. Greg Smith. November 5, 2012 12:00 AM EST. ... Smith is the author of the new book Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story.

The legendary math professor then moved on in the late 1960s to form Convertible Hedge Associates, later to be called Princeton Newport Partners-- where he became one of the first to apply ...