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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 / Gillian Tett.
- 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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| Text | Request in advance | HG6024.U6 T48 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 293 p.; 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.
- Contents
- Innovation. The derivatives dream ; Dancing around the regulators ; The dream team ; The cuffs come off ; Merger mania -- Perversion. Innovation unleashed ; Mr. Dimon takes charge ; Risky business ; Leveraging lunacy ; Tremors -- Disaster. First failures ; Panic takes hold ; Bank run ; Bear blows up ; Free fall.
- ISBN
- 9781416598572 :
- 141659857X
- LCCN
- ^^2009005127
- OCLC
- 232979264
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library