Out of Pocket: How Collective Amnesia Lost the World Its Wealth, Again - Brossura

Mcginn, Clark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1906307822 ISBN 13: 9781906307820

Casa editrice: Luath Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Cliches are the fossils of wisdom. That's why we ignore them. Particularly those with warnings ('the value of your investments may go down as well as up') and especially in the happy days of a financial boom. Shock! Horror! The cliche was true and we are left staring into a crater once known as the financial markets. This has happened before - this bust is a whopper but it shares the symptoms of the crash in which your parents lost money, and their parents and theirs before them. So don't believe this is the last credit crunch - there are teenage optimists alive now who will reach maturity and guide our children into the next boom and its collapse. Collective Amnesia ensures that the long view is smothered as we watch the pendulum swing from greed to fear and back again. This isn't just a disease of a shadowy group of bankers but is a communal blunder in which we all share - financiers, regulators, politicians, even ordinary savers or buyers of houses, cars and consumer goods, we all chased the market up the hill and over the cliff and we all end up out of pocket. Written by a senior banker with many years' experience, this book takes the long view. It shows how simple the basics of banking are and tells the stories of how we lost money in similar ways over the centuries. Read it and you might just lose less money next time!

Su questo libro

Recensione:

'I started writing this book three years ago to amuse my fellow bankers. Little did we all know what was about to happen. But we should have. Sorry.' --Clark McGinn

L'autore:

Clark McGinn is a Glasgow University graduate in philosophy and is currently Senior Director of an asset finance team in a large UK bank. His career spans 25 years in both commercial banks and investment banks in London and New York. He has watched greed and fear vie in a seemingly unbreakable cycle of booms and busts with each crisis coming as an apparent surprise to bankers, politicians, regulators and the public. Clark is also an author and contributor to national newspapers, and a part time professional public speaker and lecturer. His speeches have been shown on TV in Britain, America, Canada and Australia.

 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Luath Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906307822
• ISBN 13: 9781906307820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320