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The sellout : how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system
Title:
The sellout : how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system
Author:
Gasparino, Charles.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Wiley, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
xvii, 553 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
Offers an account of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history--not merely a recounting of the collapse of Wall Street's legendary firms, but a broad examination of the people and the forces who killed Wall Street.
Language:
English
Contents:
Fun and games -- Power and perks -- Sex, drugs, and debt -- An education in risk -- Bigger is better -- Financial renaissance -- Paying the price -- One big happy family -- Opening the floodgates -- No more mother merrill -- Citigroup's money machine -- Perverse incentives -- Top of the world -- Cash stops flowing -- No clue -- The dancing stops -- The end begins -- "They're saying you guys are in trouble" -- Free fall -- The rescue.
ISBN:
9780061697166
Format :
Book