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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: How the Bold Dream of ... Wall Street Greed and Unleashed Catastrophe (Hardcover)

by Gillian Tett (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Free Press; 1 edition (12 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 141659857X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416598572
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 539,742 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Smashing financial journalism, 3 Aug 2009
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This ranks as one of the most thorough, accessible explanations of how the global financial system nearly disintegrated during the great financial crisis that broke in 2008. Gillian Tett traces the development of credit derivatives from their inception at an alcohol-fueled Boca Raton corporate retreat in the early 1990s. She shows how the pioneers struggled with risk management, turning down business that other financial institutions with less regard to risk sought eagerly. She elucidates the building and breaking of the wave of institutional crises - Bear Stearns, Lehman, AIG - during 2007 and 2008, and takes readers inside tense meetings between bankers and regulators at the New York Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. This is capital financial journalism, which getAbstract highly recommends to any reader who hopes to get a better understanding of the forces at work in the financial crisis.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fools Gold mp3 CD, 5 Sep 2009
This review is from: 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 (MP3 CD)
If you want to know how financial derivatives where conceived and developed to the point of the collapse of the financial markets in 2008, then I recommend this book/audio book.
Gillian Tett explains the complexities that are financial derivatives in an uncluttered way, that even I (a cabinet maker) can understand.
The story unfolds as a group of J.P.Morgan bankers develop these potentially useful products. As time goes by and the derivatives become more complex, I began to see the characters involved as dedicated and commited pioneers in their field. Some of them warned of the dangers of abuse early on, but that fell on deaf ears.
The author takes us through the proccess of the boom in credit and morgages, and of course the beginings and final collapse of these sectors.
I recommend this book to every citizen as it explains the nuts and bolts of the financial meltdown, which is an incredibly important message to all of us.
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