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Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace

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This does offer some good insight into Salomon Brothers but unfortunately the author does not have the same gift with words that Michael Lewis does. This would be an amazing book had it been written by Michael Lewis. I found it a struggle to read more than 10-15 pages at a time.

Wow! It is hard for me to describe how much I loved this book! It is so gripping, I was on the edge of my seat in fear. It kept me up for many nights because it is so scary, and when I could fall asleep I had nightmares about it! Freddy Kreuger, look out. The Salomon Brothers are coming to town!

I would term this book a nightmare. This book is about as dry as three day old non-buttered toast. The authors premises is that the activity on Wall Street during the 80's - the junk bond M & A items will kill corporations due to the debit levels thus decimate the equities markets. Not that this is that unique of a thought and the book only gets duller from that point. I picked this book up because I wanted to learn something, but the wooden writing turned me off so much I finally had to close the book after the longest 100 pages in my life. Unless you are a relative or friend of the author I would suggest continuing to look for other titles.