The sellout
Subtitle: how three decades of Wall Street's greed and stupidity destroyed America's dominance of the global financial system
By: Charles Gasparino.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061697166
Subjects: Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Avarice -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fun and games; title: Power and perks; title: Sex, drugs, and debt; title: An education in risk; title: Bigger is better; title: Financial renaissance; title: Paying the price; title: One big happy family; title: Opening the floodgates; title: No more mother merrill; title: Citigroup's money machine; title: Perverse incentives; title: Top of the world; title: Cash stops flowing; title: No clue; title: The dancing stops; title: The end begins; title: "They're saying you guys are in trouble"; title: Free fall; title: The rescue.