Fool's gold
Subtitle: how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe
By: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781408701645; 9781408701676
Description: Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Innovation; title: 1. Derivatives Dream; title: 2. Dancing Around the Regulators; title: 3. Dream Team; title: 4. Cuffs Come Off; title: 5. Merger Mania; title: Pt. 2. Perversion; title: 6. Innovation Unleashed; title: 7. Mr Dimon Takes Charge; title: 8. Risky Business; title: 9. Leveraging Lunacy; title: 10. Tremors; title: Pt.3. Disaster; title: 11. First Failures; title: 12. Panic Takes Hold; title: 13. Bank Run; title: 14. Bear Blows Up; title: 15. Freefall; title: Epilogue.