| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 553 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-530) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Let's make money. Fun and games -- Power and perks -- Sex, drugs, and debt -- An education in risk -- Part II: Merchants of debt. 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 -- Part III: What's the worst that could happen?. No clue -- The dancing stops -- The end begins -- "There are rumors that you guys are in trouble" -- Free fall -- The rescue -- Bailout nation. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
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Avarice -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
9780061697166 |
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0061697168 |
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