The sellout : how three decades of Wall Street's greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system / Charles Gasparino.
Author: Gasparino, Charles.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Wiley, c2009.
ISBN: 9780061697166
0061697168
Description: p. cm.
Subject: Financial crises United States History 21st century.
Avarice United States History 21st century.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History 21st century.
Contents: Fun and games -- Power and perks -- Sex, drugs, and debt -- An education in risk -- Bigger is better -- Financial renaissance -- Paying the price -- One big happy family -- Opening the floodgates -- No more mother merrill -- Citigroup's money machine -- Perverse incentives -- Top of the world -- Cash stops flowing -- No clue -- The dancing stops -- The end begins -- "They're saying you guys are in trouble" -- Free fall -- The rescue.