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A review by amcloughlin
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
3.0
As a Millennial working at an investment bank, I had to read this book sooner or later, and my enthusiasm over Kevin Roose's first book The Unlikely Disciple was a great impetus to finally read Young Money.
In the press tour around the book's release, Roose's interviewers focused on what his three years of reporting meant for American culture, the banking industry, the ethics of finance, and such. Those conversations are good to have, but they're not what the book is about. Young Money charts the journeys of eight new graduates who found themselves, for one reason or another, working at investment banks. Its focus is intensely personal, contextualized when needed with broader looks at the culture and mechanics of banking and finance. I actually wish I could have read this when I first started interning at an investment bank--it would have saved me months of furtive Googling and "um this might be a dumb question but..." conversations.
I do wish Roose either wrote more about each person or cut some of them out, since tracking eight stories is difficult when we only get a few scenes with each person. Still, Young Money is well-balanced, informative, and compassionate. I recommend it to everyone who wants to learn what finance is really like, what motivates the people who work in the industry, and how this handful of 2010 graduates have negotiated the ups and downs of post-college life.
In the press tour around the book's release, Roose's interviewers focused on what his three years of reporting meant for American culture, the banking industry, the ethics of finance, and such. Those conversations are good to have, but they're not what the book is about. Young Money charts the journeys of eight new graduates who found themselves, for one reason or another, working at investment banks. Its focus is intensely personal, contextualized when needed with broader looks at the culture and mechanics of banking and finance. I actually wish I could have read this when I first started interning at an investment bank--it would have saved me months of furtive Googling and "um this might be a dumb question but..." conversations.
I do wish Roose either wrote more about each person or cut some of them out, since tracking eight stories is difficult when we only get a few scenes with each person. Still, Young Money is well-balanced, informative, and compassionate. I recommend it to everyone who wants to learn what finance is really like, what motivates the people who work in the industry, and how this handful of 2010 graduates have negotiated the ups and downs of post-college life.