media about finance/investment banking

June 2, 2023 10:56 AM

Recommendations for newsletters/books/articles/fiction/other media accurately depicting the day-to-day life of people in finance or investment banking?

I read Liar's Poker and enjoyed it from an anthropology standpoint, but it's describing events in the 80s. So I'd love more recent stuff. I'm curious about people at all stages of their careers at all kinds of institutions.

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posted by joyceanmachine to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

The Big Short is a pretty entertaining film. Margin Call was a little less so but still interesting.

If you liked Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis has a whole bunch of other stuff out there that's pretty uniformly good. Longform journalism in addition to books.

On a less serious note, the Harold character in the Harold and Kumar films was an investment banker.
posted by kevinbelt at 11:35 AM on June 2, 2023 [1 favorite]

Stretching the definition of "day-to-day" because it takes place over a 24-hour period but Margin Call is an excellent film about the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 11:36 AM on June 2, 2023

Wall Street Warriors. is a documentary series about a group of people who work on or adjacent to Wall Street. It's not necessarily the most interesting or gripping, but it focuses on several people who work on Wall Street from CEO to lucky young day trader trying to continue onwards.


The Wolf of Wall Street movie is a fictionalized account of a real guy.
posted by The_Vegetables at 11:57 AM on June 2, 2023

You could follow the Litquidity instagram account, that's a pretty good insight into the mental world of the 20 something investment banker or PE person, although from a semi-satirical view of someone who has left that world but it is actually widely followed by the people you want to follow.
posted by atrazine at 11:58 AM on June 2, 2023

You could give Chat with Traders a try - it's interviews with traders (stocks, futures, options, forex and crypto markets) on how they got to where they are.
posted by needled at 12:18 PM on June 2, 2023

Floored is a 2013 documentary about open-cry pit traders at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:57 PM on June 2, 2023