The Sellout
How Three Decades of Wall Street's Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
New York : Wiley, [2009]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvii, 553 pages ; 24 cm
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 -- 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.
Subjects:
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Avarice -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Avarice -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN:
0061697168
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| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| BUSINESS Economics History Gas | Main (Downtown) | Display - Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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