Fool's Gold
How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
$40.83
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2010
Summary
In the mid-1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpose - to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concepts of credit derivatives.
The group at the heart of this revolution was an intense team, made up of individuals with a supreme sense of loya…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349121895 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349121893 |
| Author: | Gillian Tett |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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** ‘Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance
** A truly gripping narrative … The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities Dominic Lawson, SUNDAY TIMES
** Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance Will Hutton, GUARDIAN ** An absorbing 15-year gallop across the Wild West of the world s financial markets … Tett sketches a system in the grip of a great error, emanating outwards from a cadre of elite traders who were able to repel any attempt to monitor, question or restrain them Stephen Foley, INDEPENDENT** ‘A very readable, well-informed account of the way investment bankers invented, promoted and profited from the … financial products that were at the heart of the financial collapse’ Vince Cable, Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett is Assistant Editor for the FINANCIAL TIMES where she has worked for fifteen years. In 2008 she won the British Press Award for the Financial Journalist of the Year. She often appears on programmes such as TODAY and NEWSNIGHT and lectures widely.
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