Ultimate Greed

The Trading Game is a story of financial madness, moral decay and ultimate greed.  A young man preferably male protagonist is traditionally attracted to Wall Street to seek his fortune. But Gary Stevenson the poor kid kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of affluent Canary Wharf’s skyscrapers,  wanted something much better and bigger for himself.  After winning a competition run by a bank “The Trading Game” he got the golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city of London.  Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public … Continue reading Ultimate Greed

Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs

Jamie Flore Higgins, one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs, spurred on by the obligation to her working-class immigrant family, rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks, affairs flouted in the office, rampant drug abuse, and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture that seemed designed to hold back the few women and people of colour employed at the company. Flore Higgins reveals Goldman Sachs having the right talking points and statistics, which provided a veneer to cover up what she found to be an abusive culture. Her account … Continue reading Life of abuse at Goldman Sachs