Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banker…or Not

Amit Chatwani, a 26-year-old author and blogger, either has the best or worst timing in publishing history. Maybe a little of both. Writer of the popular Wall Street blog Leveragedsellout.com, just published a satirical book entitled “Damn It Feels Good to be a Banker.” Does it NOW, though?

The New York Times reports that Mr. Chatwani wrote the book “a sort of fake how-to guide to understand and join the realm of young investment bankers, as if written by a young investment banker.” But now that banking (and all sorts of other financial institutions) are heading the way of dot.coms in the early 1990s, will this book be thought of as a joke or a bad investment?

Chatwani says he hopes “Damn It Feels Good” will one day be seen as the book that crystalized the moment right before the crash. Or the last hurrah in a bankrupt time…

To read the whole article, go HERE.

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