The Sellout
How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 3, 2009
In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history.
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- Who it’s for
- A pointed account of how finance and government got tangled, with practical aftertaste.
- Genres
- Finance, Economic History, Banks & Banking
- Published
- HarperCollins, November 3, 2009
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In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history.
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In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street’s dominance, made many of our country’s most fabled financial institutions vulnerable to significant new foreign control, and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of poor and middle-class American families.
Why It Clicks
A pointed account of how finance and government got tangled, with practical aftertaste.
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- Wall Street and policy, kept in the same room
- A brisk read for career-minded attention
Expect
- High-stakes institutional failure
- Clear, unsentimental explanation
Where it sits
| Economic History | 39% |
|---|---|
| Finance | 37% |
| Banks & Banking | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Derivatives Investing
- 21st-Century History
- Economic Policy
- Political Commentary
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- Corruption & Misconduct
- Authors
- Charles Gasparino
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 3, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Derivatives Investing