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The Sellout by Charles Gasparino

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The Sellout

How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System

Charles Gasparino

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 3, 2009

Reading lane: Derivatives Investing

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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Why This Clicks

Why It Clicks

A pointed account of how finance and government got tangled, with practical aftertaste.

Come here for

  • Wall Street and policy, kept in the same room
  • A brisk read for career-minded attention

Expect

  • High-stakes institutional failure
  • Clear, unsentimental explanation

Book Details

Authors
Charles Gasparino
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
November 3, 2009
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Derivatives Investing · World Politics
Reading lane
Derivatives Investing

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Publisher Categories

  • Derivatives Investing

  • 21st-Century History

  • Economic Policy

  • Political Commentary

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  • Corruption & Misconduct

About This Book

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. 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 v...

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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. 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.

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