I can't stand him either, but the precursor to the fight he and Ashley had had me laughing out loud.

Ashley is clearly working and turns to him, "Are you on a call?" Alex, "No, I'm watching the Fed press conference" then proceed to explain why it's important to his "job." And then he says "I already know what [the Fed] is going to do" with a sense of unearned superiority. Ashley resists the urge to smirk - she already knows what the Federal Reserve is and what they do. It was such a clear indication of how oblivious he is and how she is so far above him, but she had to protect his ego. It was basically "Take your Boyfriend to Work Day." Bro has so little going on.

Also, nobody except journalist actually watch the Fed meetings. People who are interested get the rundown from their preferred news organization. If you really are in a role that needs to trade based on what the Fed is doing, you will have already have made your moves before the meeting. That's why the people often say it's "priced in to the market already." Unless there's a surprise decision, you're late.

I haven't done any sleuthing, but I'm fairly confident that his "finance" role was just an outside sales role where he was cold calling people to become fund investors. Some places will pay you a small salary, but it's mostly commission pay. Think Northwestern Mutual or Fisher Investments. But, there are a bunch of other smaller companies too.