
143: Michael Kimelman – Convicted of Insider Trading—From Suburban Life to Prison Life
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How I Got Into Finance and Trading
CNN's Richard Quest was a lawyer at Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and DATEC. He traded his way through law school then went into the proprietary trading world. Quest says he didn't want to wait around for "risk arbitrage" jobs like those offered by other firms. His new book is called The Secret Life of Wall Street: How One Trader Turned A Lawyer’s Career Into An $11 billion Fortune 500 Hit.
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