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The sellout : how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system / Charles Gasparino.
Lippincott Library HB3722 .G37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gasparino, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial crises--United States--History--21st century.
- Financial crises.
- Avarice.
- History.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--History--21st century.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).
- Avarice--United States--History--21st century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 553 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Business, [2009]
- 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.
- 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
- The money machine
- Perverse incentives
- Top of the world
- Cash stops flowing
- No clue
- The dancing stops
- The end begins
- "There are rumoprs that you guys are in trouble"
- Free fall
- The rescue
- Bailout nation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-530) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061697166
- 0061697168
- OCLC:
- 263982039
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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