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Fool's gold : the inside story of J.P. Morgan and how Wall Street greed corrupted its bold dream and created a financial catastrophe / Gillian Tett.
Lippincott Library HG6024.U6 T48 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tett, Gillian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Credit derivatives--United States--History.
- Credit derivatives.
- Housing--United States--Finance.
- Housing.
- History.
- United States.
- Finance.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- J.P. Morgan & Co.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 301 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Traces the relationship between a team of J.P. Morgan banking gurus and the current financial crisis, documenting their invention of a bold variety of allegedly risk-free investments that sparked a frenzy in the banking world and may have directly contributed to the market crash.
- Contents:
- The derivatives dream
- Dancing around the regulators
- The dream team
- The cuffs come off
- Merger mania
- Innovation unleashed
- Mr. Dimon takes charge
- Risky business
- Leveraging lunacy
- Tremors
- First failures
- Panic takes hold
- Bank run
- Bear blows up
- Free fall.
- Notes:
- "Updated with new preface and afterword" -- Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439100134
- 1439100136
- 9781439100752
- 1439100756
- OCLC:
- 603588695
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