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, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781408701645; 9781408701676
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Derivat <Wertpapier>; Management; Financial crises; Bank failures; Finanzkrise; Kreditkontrolle; Credit control; Kredietcrisis (2008-); Credit; Recessions; Derivative securities; Bankenkrise; Debt
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: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Part 1. Innovation; title: The Derivatives Dream
pagenum: 3
label: 1; title: Dancing Around the Regulators
pagenum: 26
label: 2; title: The Dream Team
pagenum: 48
label: 3; title: The Cuffs Come Off
pagenum: 66
label: 4; title: Merger Mania
label: 5; title: Part 2. Perversion; title: Innovation Unleashed
pagenum: 103
label: 6; title: Mr Dimon Takes Charge
pagenum: 123
label: 7; title: Risky Business
pagenum: 138
label: 8; title: Leveraging Lunacy
pagenum: 152
label: 9; title: Tremors
label: 10; title: Part3. Disaster; title: First Failures
pagenum: 195
label: 11; title: Panic Takes Hold
pagenum: 210
label: 12; title: Bank Run
pagenum: 225
label: 13; title: Bear Blows Up
pagenum: 250
label: 14; title: Freefall
pagenum: 265
label: 15; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 287; title: Notes
pagenum: 302; title: Glossary
pagenum: 320; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 324; title: Index
pagenum: 326