Kyle Harrison
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F.I.A.S.C.O.
F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street
- Author
- Frank Partnoy
- Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 256
- Recommended
- 2 times
Why it’s on the list: A former Morgan Stanley derivatives salesman’s insider exposé of the predatory culture and complex financial instruments driving 1990s Wall Street.
Where I heard about it
- Charlie Munger — recommended in Poor Charlie’s Almanack, part of his reading list of books that build a latticework of multidisciplinary mental models.
- A Goldman Sachs reading list — on the firm’s recommended reading list (careers site), shared on X by @F_Compounders, July 2025.
About this edition
By Frank Partnoy; the Goldman list misprints the author as “Portnoy.”
Connections
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack — surfaced on Charlie Munger’s recommended-reading list.
- Goldman Sachs Recommended reading list… (tweet) — recommendation #2: on Goldman Sachs’s reading list.