The sellout
Subtitle: how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system
By: Charles Gasparino.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Business
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
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
Description: Offers an account of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history--not merely a recounting of the collapse of Wall Street's legendary firms, but a broad examination of the people and the forces who killed Wall Street.
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: The 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: "There are rumoprs that you guys are in trouble"; title: Free fall; title: The rescue; title: Bailout nation.