The dark side of Wall Street: An insider’s tale of illegal trades – and illegal substances
Source: The Globe and Mail
Sitting in a midtown Manhattan hotel sipping a cup of coffee, Turney Duff explained the similarity between insider trading and snorting cocaine.
You have these moments of, This might not be right, he said. It didnt smell good, but it felt really good.
These days, Mr. Duff doesnt look like a master of the universe a trader who once earned $2-million (U.S.) a year, lived in a loft in Tribeca and took private jets to the Super Bowl.
... Now sober, Mr. Duff, 43, has just published a tell-all memoir that offers an inside look at the dark side of Wall Street. His book, The Buy Side, is a portrait of a place where breaking the rules was just another way to gain an edge and the appetite to spend knew no limits.
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