false 6442950 4 6632920 30 4 2009 Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe: How an Ingenious Tribe of Bankers Rewrote ... Made a Fortune and Survived a Catastrophe total:61|5:17|4:31|3:12|2:1|1:0| 61 247 169 26 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 09:59:12 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 10:46:12 -0700 2009 Fool’s Gold Gillian Tett provides one of the clearest explanations of the sophisticated financial transactions that contributed to the recent Wall Street financial crisis. Using language reminiscent of the Financial Times (Tett’s day job) she lays out in painstaking detail the world of credi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:19:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:53:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 05:15:05 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 05:23:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 11:50:45 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 13:20:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 20:01:31 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 09:38:58 -0700 2009
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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 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:49:30 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 08:43:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 05:44:54 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 11:09:13 -0700 2009 In Fool's Gold, Gillian Tett, a reporter for the Financial Times, tells the story of how esoteric credit derivatives were developed and championed by a small group of independent thinkers at J. P. Morgan and how these derivatives came to ran amok among other banks causing the financial crisis from w...

more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 13:11:22 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 11:38:43 -0700 2009 Fool's Gold might seem similar to William Cohan's House of Crads,. Each seeks to describe how the financial system collapsed by telling the story of one of its central players: Tett by focusing on one of the survivors (J.P Morgan Chase), Cohan on one of the failures (Bear Stearns, wh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:11:48 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:15:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 18:23:22 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 18:28:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 17:28:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 17:34:49 -0700 2009 How we got into the financial collapse of 2008/9.... The people within the banking industry who created and supported...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 01:40:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 01:46:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:46:55 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 06:56:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:17:03 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:25:21 -0700 2009
I found the end of the book was a real "cliff hanger" even though I knew...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 23 09:13:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 09:14:29 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:03:31 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 09:46:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 05:55:56 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 05:56:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 15:28:11 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 15:28:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Aug 10 10:42:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 10:43:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6442950