Randall Lane is a journalist and entrepreneur. As CEO and editor in chief of Doubledown Media, he founded or relaunched six magazines, including Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, and Private Air. A National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate. He is currently editor at large at The Daily Beast. He lives in New York City.
Captivating...the perfect prism to view the larger picture of what was happening across the financial canvas during those sky's-the-limit years. -USA Today An extremely well-written book, a hard-to-put-down cocktail of small business mishaps and gigantic Wall Street egos. -Forbes A circle of characters that could have come straight out of a potboiler...vivid. -Bloomberg Great book! -Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe If a hustling Candide had told the story of the Great Wall Street Meltdown, it might read something like this book. -The Wall Street Journal Anyone who wants to understand Wall Street's insanity should read this book. -MarketWatch A delicious, salacious recounting of Wall Street's bloated decade ...marvelously readable. -BusinessWeek Lane makes no excuses for the era. But the color he extracts makes for lively beach reading. -Fortune A remarkable story. -Forbes.com Entertaining. -The Financial Times What Michael Lewis did for '80s traders in Liar's Poker, Randall Lane has now done for trader rock stars of The Zeroes. You will be stunned by the craziness and cautioned by the consequences. -Jack Covert, 800-CEO-Read The stuff of sublime farce that could happen only in a time and place when the obscene becomes normal, as Lane observes. -Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair Absolutely brilliant. -Tina Brown