Abby Larson received her PhD in Sociology from the New York University in 2010. Her fellowship project was a study of global financial markets based on data collected in and around major global investment banks in New York, London, and Frankfurt during the fall of 2008. Unlike previous research on financial crisis, the project draws on in-depth interviews and ethnographic research conducted during the height of market uncertainty. The unique methodology sheds light on several important paradoxes, and contributes to our contemporary understandings of financial markets specifically, and the intersection of culture, politics, globalization, and technology more broadly.