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Street Freak: A Memoir of Money and Madness
Full title: | Street Freak: A Memoir of Money and Madness |
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ISBN: | 9781439181270 |
ISBN 10: | 1439181276 |
Authors: | |
Publisher: | Mtv Books |
Edition: | Reprint |
Num. pages: | 368 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2012 |
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Synopsis
In the ultracompetitive Ivy League world of Wall Street, Jared Dillian was an outsider as an ex-military, working-class guy in a Men’s Wearhouse suit. But he was scrappy and determined; in interviews he told potential managers that “Nobody can work harder than me. Nobody is willing to put in the hours I will put in. I am insane.” As it turned out, at Lehman Brothers insanity was not an undesirable quality.
Dillian rose from green associate, checking IDs at the entrance to the trading floor in the paranoid days following 9/11, to become an integral part of Lehman’s culture in its final years as the firm’s head Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) trader. More than $1 trillion in wealth passed through his hands, yet the extreme highs and lows of the trading floor masked and exacerbated the symptoms of Dillian’s undiagnosed bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorders, leading to a downward spiral that nearly ended his life.
In his electrifying and fresh voice, Dillian takes readers on a wild ride through madness and back.