The Money Culture: The Outrageous Expose of the 1980s Financial Scene

Astonishing true stories of greed and ambition on 1980s Wall Street: a perfect read for fans of The Wolf of Wall Street and BBC's Industry

The 1980s was the most turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and later an investment banker and financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fuelled that decade.

In The Money Culture we meet the movers and shakers who commanded the headlines and rewrote the rules. This is a gripping account of the biggest names and moments in one of the most outrageous decades in Wall Street’s history.