{"id":227,"date":"2007-12-30T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-12-30T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T08:39:34","slug":"the-accidental-investment-banker-inside-the-decade-that-transformed-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/12\/30\/the-accidental-investment-banker-inside-the-decade-that-transformed-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-227\">\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><strong>T<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">itle<\/span>:<\/strong> The Accidental Investment Banker<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:helvetica;\">: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Author<\/span>: Jonathan A. Knee<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Paperback<\/span>: 288 pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Publisher<\/span>: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 31, 2007)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Language<\/span>: English<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ISBN-10<\/span>: 0812978048<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;margin:0;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ISBN-13<\/span>: 978-0812978049<\/p>\n<p>I bought this book at the Phoenix airport on the way home from an interview (I didn&#8217;t get the job, bummer). \u00c2\u00a0This book describes the major changes in investment banking from the early 1990s through 2005 from the point of view of a participant, the author. \u00c2\u00a0I liked this book a lot &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know a lot about investment banking, having only worked for a commercial bank (and they are quite different). \u00c2\u00a0Knee has a nice, direct writing style, and he provides a lot of bootstrapping information so you can understand the events he writes about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-227\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 227);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-227\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-227\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street Author: Jonathan A. Knee Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 31, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0812978048 ISBN-13: 978-0812978049 I bought this book at the Phoenix airport on the way home from an interview (I didn&#8217;t get the job, bummer). \u00c2\u00a0This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,28],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-3F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}