The Private Life Of Public Finance: Confessions Of A Recovering Investment Banker

The son of a steelworker from Pennsylvania tells the inside story, warts and all, of his career as a successful investment banker at two of the biggest, best-known, and most controversial firms in the world-Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase-during a historic and turbulent period in US history. Mark Melio's personal anecdotes and observations illustrate the self-absorbed culture, hypocrisy, and rapacious practices of Wall Street's leading banks, how he bought into the fiction that "the customer always comes first," and how investment banks morphed from once-proud partnerships into predators in constant search of new ways to scalp clients. This is a rare glimpse by a thoughtful observer behind the scenes of an institution that built America's "new" economy and then nearly destroyed it.

Author: Mark T. Melio

Publisher: Platform Press

Publication Date: Oct 21, 2016

Number of Pages: 186 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography

ISBN-10: 0997493011

ISBN-13: 9780997493016