Okay, I’m somewhat loathed to write this post since I do not want to crawl over even more tourist in New York’s financial district, but hidden among the high-end retailers, gyms and other businesses that support Wall Street workers is a great museum, The Museum of American Finance. It is easy to walk by the museum…
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Fi-Tech Culture
High Finance, a Wall Street Fiction
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•In this episode of the Daly Post Podcast, Rob interviews author and former Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman on his first novel, High Finance. Set in a fictitious investment bank, the story follows 10 days in the life of exotics derivatives trader Jerry Klein on the eve of the 2008 credit crisis as Klein becomes…
Fi-Tech Culture
The Futures
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•I’ve been on a financial services reading kick lately and I’ve just finished reading Emily Lambert’s The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets. It’s a quick and enjoyable read that gives a good history of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and…