Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fool's gold

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

232979264

Responsibility statement

Gillian Tett

Sub title

how the bold dream of a small tribe at J.P. Morgan was corrupted by Wall Street greed and unleashed a catastrophe

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

Table Of 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

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