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Fool's gold

How unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe

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An edition of Fool's gold (2009)

Fool's gold

How unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe

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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.

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Little, Brown
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English
Pages
338

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Derivat <Wertpapier>, Management, Financial crises, Bankenkrise, Finanzkrise, Kreditkontrolle, Credit control, Kredietcrisis (2008-), Credit, Recessions, Derivative securities, Bank failures, Debt, Credit, management, Economic history, 21st century
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Fool's gold: How unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe
2009, Little, Brown
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Cover of: Fool's gold
Fool's gold: how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe
2009, Little, Brown
in English

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Table of Contents

Preface
Page ix
Part 1. Innovation
1. The Derivatives Dream
Page 3
2. Dancing Around the Regulators
Page 26
3. The Dream Team
Page 48
4. The Cuffs Come Off
Page 66
5. Merger Mania
Part 2. Perversion
6. Innovation Unleashed
Page 103
7. Mr Dimon Takes Charge
Page 123
8. Risky Business
Page 138
9. Leveraging Lunacy
Page 152
10. Tremors
Part3. Disaster
11. First Failures
Page 195
12. Panic Takes Hold
Page 210
13. Bank Run
Page 225
14. Bear Blows Up
Page 250
15. Freefall
Page 265
Epilogue
Page 287
Notes
Page 302
Glossary
Page 320
Acknowledgements
Page 324
Index
Page 326

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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London, UK
Copyright Date
2009

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Dewey Decimal Class
332.7
Library of Congress
HB3722 .T42 2009

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Pagination
xiv, 338 p.
Number of pages
338

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24746501M
ISBN 10
1408701642, 1408701677
ISBN 13
9781408701645, 9781408701676
OCLC/WorldCat
276648618

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OL15712259W

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