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Everyone & no one can be a Finance Bro

Everyone & no one can be a Finance Bro

It's Been a Minute vor 7 Monaten

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He's mysterious and aspirational, but is he even real? Or is he
just a reflection of all of our society?

The ‘finance bro’ has become a pretty ubiquitous figure in the
American zeitgeist. From American Psycho and Mad Men to the tech
bros of Silicon Valley, he’s taken many forms. And these days he
has flipped genders in the hit HBO series Industry. But what
makes the finance bro mythology so compelling? And why do we sign
up to watch him again and again?

To find out, Brittany is joined by chief correspondent at Business
Insider and host of Channels, Peter Kafka and Roxana Hadadi, TV
critic for Vulture and New York Magazine.

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