Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down--And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again - Rilegato

McGee, Suzanne

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ISBN 10: 0307460118 ISBN 13: 9780307460110

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 2010

Riassunto

Shares the author's sobering views on Wall Street's role in the recent economic crisis while arguing that practices in proprietary trading and insider deals caused heavy losses for mainstream investors, in a report that focuses on the Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch scandals.

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Recensione:

"...masterful...exceptionally lucid, well-written"--Washington Post

“...must-read on the venerable Wall Street firm [Goldman Sachs].”— Dow Jones’ FINS
 
“A disturbing account of how Goldman Sachs Group Inc. became a seductively successful Pied Piper, luring rival banks down a path to destruction.”— Bloomberg
 
“McGee’s book is full of entertaining and enlightening material.” — Financial Times  
 
“McGee has taken it upon herself to make the case less through assertion or argument than through anecdote and appeal to authority.” — New York Times Book Review
 
“...a great look at a current event for the general reader.”— Library Journal

“Excellent book.” — Booklist

L'autore:

SUZANNE McGEE, is a contributing editor at Barron’s. She has written about the financial markets for the New York Post, Institutional Investor, Portfolio.com, and the Financial Times and is a Loeb Award winner for a multimedia series on consumer culture in China. Earlier in her career she was a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

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• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307460118
• ISBN 13: 9780307460110
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 398