Teethmarks on my Chopsticks: A Knucklehead Goes to Wall Street

Whats it really like to work on Wall Street? Follow Matt Connolly as he moves from entry-level gofer to head trader to federal defendant. Fresh out of college in 1987 Connolly stumbles onto a job as a clerk at JP Morgan. Through hard work dumb luck and a watchful eye he learns how to trade bonds and bahts paper and punches. After a decade Connolly is lured from JP Morgan to start a trading desk at Deutsche Bank. He keeps climbing the rungs - and avoiding the shade. But the late nights globetrotting and frat-house culture are taking a toll. After twenty-one years Connolly feels old for Wall Street and he calls it a career. But not so fast. Nine years later hes a federal defendant in the LIBOR scandal.