--- product_id: 3916997 title: "Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle" price: "AR$58761" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3916997-monkey-business-swinging-through-the-wall-street-jungle store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Leather crown for safety Sturdy hardware Durable poly webbing Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle **Price:** AR$58761 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📈 Dive into the wild side of Wall Street—where money talks and sanity walks! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - **How much does it cost?** AR$58761 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3916997-monkey-business-swinging-through-the-wall-street-jungle) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **MBA Must-Read:** Essential for aspiring bankers and business pros who want the real story behind the suits and salaries. - • **Survive the Grind:** Experience the 20-hour workdays, relentless pressure, and the true cost of chasing the American Dream. - • **Career Reality Check:** Beyond the glam, discover why the banking world’s culture hasn’t changed and what it means for your future. - • **Laugh Through the Chaos:** Hilarious, bawdy, and brutally relatable—because sometimes the best way to cope is with a laugh. - • **Insider Wall Street Revelations:** Unmask the high-stakes jungle of investment banking with razor-sharp humor and brutal honesty. ## Overview Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle is a brutally funny and eye-opening memoir revealing the grueling reality behind the glamor of investment banking. Written by two fresh graduates, it exposes the exhausting hours, toxic culture, and absurdity of life at a top Wall Street firm, making it a must-read for anyone considering a career in finance or curious about the true cost of the American Dream. ## Description A hilarious insider's glimpse behind the scenes of DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street. Newly graduated business students John Rolfe and Peter Troob thought life at a major investment banking firm would be a dream come true. But they discovered Wall Street employees to be overworked and at their wit's end. Twenty-hour work days, strip clubs, and inflated salaries–this hysterical book reveals it all. Monkey Business is a wild ride about two young men who realized they were selling their souls in exchange for the American Dream. Review: Still a Must Read for anybody considering I-banking. - I got this book yesterday and read through it quickly that night. First of all, it is hilarious. The critic review on the covers says "funniest book since Liar's Poker." I disagree, this is funnier, even though Liar's Poker was funny in its own right. Caveat Emptor, though, the humor is bawdier than most anything I've heard in a locker room. The language itself is a testament to the investment banking world and how it desensitizes junior bankers. To many, the book will be most startling in just how unglamorous the Investment Banking life actually is. Even the rainmakers at the top of the heap, the managing directors, don't necessarily live a glamorous life. While junior bankers have to grovel to the MD's, the MD's themselves spend their lives groveling to clients and the buyside, trying to justify their existence with pretty pitch books and fonts that are just right. The most amazing thing about the banking life, though, is not the hours. It's how useless most of those hours are. From what I gathered, the associates and analysts do maybe 4-8 hours a day of real, productive work. The rest of the hours are spent making mindless changes for MD's, only for the MD's and Vice Presidents to change their mind and throw out a lot of that work. Associates spent a lot more time in meetings and travel than I expected, typically just to bring pitch books and give a formidable presence for the bank. In other words, Monkey Business reads somewhat like a long MBA case study about a mismanaged company who promotes top performers rather than good managers (although it is far, far more interesting than a case study). The MD's have all the hallmarks of bosses from hell. They don't understand what junior bankers actually do and they motivate by crucifying for mistakes and missed deadlines while taking all the credit when there's success. From the long hours and the constant mistreatment, it's easy to see how investment banks precipitated the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. During the peak of investment banking, 2003-06, bankers were so desensitized that they had no idea how to think or build value for the economy. Everything was about money, everything was about selling and sounding good and not truly working on behalf of their clients. While most of these shenanigans happened in the trading side of I-banks and not the banking side, the same culture permeated throughout, the almighty dollar before EVERYTHING else. My only real disappointment was the new post-crisis afterword. Most of the afterword was fine, tying up the loose ends and showing the investment banking can actually lead to good buyside or senior banking jobs, if you're willing to sell your soul for a few years. Rather, I was disappointed that he focused on the trading that led to the crisis, something well-known at this point. I was more interested in why banking still hasn't changed, why analysts and associates are still so poorly treated and why there's so much motion with so little relative value produced. Read this if you're interested in how businesses work and if you want a good, if very vulgar, laugh. DEFINITELY read this if you're an Ivy undergraduate or MBA student considering wads of money I-bankers may be throwing at you. Realize that there's more to choosing your offer than the salary and if anything could possibly offer a career path half as attractive as the eventual buyside job after banking, take it. Review: informative, hilarious, and relatable - This book made finance interesting to read due to the hilarious and miserable circumstances that both character had to endure. I never want to work for a big Wall Street firm because of these guys. The best part was how relatable some of the situations were for me. The only reason why I didn't give this five stars was that it dragged a little bit towards the end. I absolutely recommend this book. It provided the inner details that Wolf of Wall Street did not. ## Features - Leather crown For Turnout Safety - Poly Webbing - Good Hardware ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #533,098 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #98 in Business & Professional Humor #117 in Banks & Banking (Books) #540 in Workplace Culture (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,011 Reviews | ## Images ![Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81j7698KSyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Still a Must Read for anybody considering I-banking. *by M***S on September 3, 2010* I got this book yesterday and read through it quickly that night. First of all, it is hilarious. The critic review on the covers says "funniest book since Liar's Poker." I disagree, this is funnier, even though Liar's Poker was funny in its own right. Caveat Emptor, though, the humor is bawdier than most anything I've heard in a locker room. The language itself is a testament to the investment banking world and how it desensitizes junior bankers. To many, the book will be most startling in just how unglamorous the Investment Banking life actually is. Even the rainmakers at the top of the heap, the managing directors, don't necessarily live a glamorous life. While junior bankers have to grovel to the MD's, the MD's themselves spend their lives groveling to clients and the buyside, trying to justify their existence with pretty pitch books and fonts that are just right. The most amazing thing about the banking life, though, is not the hours. It's how useless most of those hours are. From what I gathered, the associates and analysts do maybe 4-8 hours a day of real, productive work. The rest of the hours are spent making mindless changes for MD's, only for the MD's and Vice Presidents to change their mind and throw out a lot of that work. Associates spent a lot more time in meetings and travel than I expected, typically just to bring pitch books and give a formidable presence for the bank. In other words, Monkey Business reads somewhat like a long MBA case study about a mismanaged company who promotes top performers rather than good managers (although it is far, far more interesting than a case study). The MD's have all the hallmarks of bosses from hell. They don't understand what junior bankers actually do and they motivate by crucifying for mistakes and missed deadlines while taking all the credit when there's success. From the long hours and the constant mistreatment, it's easy to see how investment banks precipitated the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. During the peak of investment banking, 2003-06, bankers were so desensitized that they had no idea how to think or build value for the economy. Everything was about money, everything was about selling and sounding good and not truly working on behalf of their clients. While most of these shenanigans happened in the trading side of I-banks and not the banking side, the same culture permeated throughout, the almighty dollar before EVERYTHING else. My only real disappointment was the new post-crisis afterword. Most of the afterword was fine, tying up the loose ends and showing the investment banking can actually lead to good buyside or senior banking jobs, if you're willing to sell your soul for a few years. Rather, I was disappointed that he focused on the trading that led to the crisis, something well-known at this point. I was more interested in why banking still hasn't changed, why analysts and associates are still so poorly treated and why there's so much motion with so little relative value produced. Read this if you're interested in how businesses work and if you want a good, if very vulgar, laugh. DEFINITELY read this if you're an Ivy undergraduate or MBA student considering wads of money I-bankers may be throwing at you. Realize that there's more to choosing your offer than the salary and if anything could possibly offer a career path half as attractive as the eventual buyside job after banking, take it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ informative, hilarious, and relatable *by X***S on May 12, 2014* This book made finance interesting to read due to the hilarious and miserable circumstances that both character had to endure. I never want to work for a big Wall Street firm because of these guys. The best part was how relatable some of the situations were for me. The only reason why I didn't give this five stars was that it dragged a little bit towards the end. I absolutely recommend this book. It provided the inner details that Wolf of Wall Street did not. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Value *by L***S on December 30, 2025* Great price, good condition ## Frequently Bought Together - Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) - Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3916997-monkey-business-swinging-through-the-wall-street-jungle](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/3916997-monkey-business-swinging-through-the-wall-street-jungle) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-08-28*