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In the same way that Michael Lewis chronicled circa-1980s Wall Street in Liar’s Poker, Randall Lane offers juicy insight into its recent excesses, said Jack Covert in Inc.com. As the editor of Trader Monthly magazine, “Lane was smack dab in the middle of the lunacy,” and he’s not afraid to name names or describe the pervasive greed “with an insider’s eye.”
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