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The Last Tycoons
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.00A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street?s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons... more...
House of Cards
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world?s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under... more...
Money and Power
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95From the bestselling, prize-winning author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a revelatory history of Goldman Sachs, the most dominant, controversial and feared investment bank in the world Goldman Sachs has always projected an image of being better than its competitors. The firm?buttressed by an aggressive and sophisticated PR machine?often boasts of "The Goldman... more...
The Last Tycoons
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableThey amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the astonishing story of Lazard Frères, the world?s most elite and legendary investment bank ? and the men who reigned over it all. For over 150 years Lazard Frères had stood apart from other Wall Street... more...
House of Cards
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableOn the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase. Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. What went wrong? In House of Cards bestselling... more...
Money and Power
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableWhen, in late 2008, the dust finally started to settle on one of the worst financial crises in history, only one Wall Street institution still stood virtually unassailed - Goldman Sachs. Why did Goldman survive, and even flourish, when so many of its peers were collapsing around them? Were the Goldman professionals simply the 'smartest guys in the... more...
The New Financial Deal
Wiley 2010; US$ 34.95The good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall Street The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century. In The New Financial Deal , author David Skeel offers an in-depth look at the new financial reforms and... more...
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