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Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. <br /><br /> Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers.<br /><br /> Young Money is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, <i>New York</i> magazine business writer and author of the critically acclaimed <i>The Unlikely Disciple</i>, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and other leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process.<br /><br /> Roose's young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bo