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Fool's gold : how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe
- Title
- Fool's gold : how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe / Gillian Tett.
- Author
- Tett, Gillian.
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, 2009.
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- Publisher description
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| Text | Request in advance | HG6024.U6 T48 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 293 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Traces the relationship between a team of JP Morgan banking gurus and the current financial crisis, documenting their invention of a bold variety of allegedly risk-free investments that sparked a frenzy in the banking world and may have directly contributed to the market crash.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Innovation -- 1. The Derivatives Dream -- 2. Dancing Around the Regulators -- 3. The Dream Team -- 4. The Cuffs Come Off -- 5. Merger Mania -- Pt. 2. Perversion -- 6. Innovation Unleashed -- 7. Mr. Dimon Takes Charge -- 8. Risky Business -- 9. Leveraging Lunacy -- 10. Tremors -- Pt. 3. Disaster -- 11. First Failures -- 12. Panic Takes Hold -- 13. Bank Run -- 14. Bear Blows Up -- 15. Free Fall.
- ISBN
- 9781416598572 :
- 141659857X
- LCCN
- 2009005127
- 40016823717
- OCLC
- 232979264
- ocn232979264
- SCSB-9058656
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries