Fool's gold : how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe / Gillian Tett.
2009
HG6024.U6 T48 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Fool's gold : how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe / Gillian Tett.
Author
Tett, Gillian.
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
ISBN
9781416598572
141659857X
141659857X
Imprint
New York : Free Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
x, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HG6024.U6 T48 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.660973
Summary
Traces the relationship between a team of JP 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Innovation. The derivatives dream ; Dancing around the regulators ; The dream team ; The cuffs come off ; Merger mania
Perversion. Innovation unleashed ; Mr. Dimon takes charge ; Risky business ; Leveraging lunacy ; Tremors
Disaster. First failures ; Panic takes hold ; Bank run ; Bear blows up ; Free fall.
Perversion. Innovation unleashed ; Mr. Dimon takes charge ; Risky business ; Leveraging lunacy ; Tremors
Disaster. First failures ; Panic takes hold ; Bank run ; Bear blows up ; Free fall.