Financial Crisis of 2008 - A History of Us Financial Markets 20002012

This must-read for those in the financial business shines new light on puzzles and controversies and dispenses with conventional errors.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Heritage of the Hi-Tech Bubble; 2. The Stretch for Higher Returns 2004-2006; 3. The Impending Storm - 2007; 4. The Crisis - 2008; 5. What Caused the Crisis?; 6. The Initial Obama Administration 2009; 7. Recovery 2010-2012; 8. Epilogue 2012-2016.

About the author

Barrie A. Wigmore led Goldman Sachs' corporate finance department serving electric and gas utilities, natural gas pipelines, and telephone companies around the world. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a member of the Investment Committee for its $3.5 billion endowment, and Chairman of the Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust. He is the author of The Crash and Its Aftermath: Securities Markets in the United States 1929–1933 (1986), Securities Markets in the 1980s (1995), and a novel, Morgenthal & Co. The Story of an Important Investment Bank 1972–2010 (2013).

Summary

The first history to explain fully the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. Written by an expert in global finance, it follows the money trails, synthesizes all the available data, and explores the motivations of the many different institutions involved.

Product details

• Authors: Barrie A. Wigmore, Wigmore Barrie A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108837637
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83763-7
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, United States of America, USA, Monetary Economics, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Finance and the finance industry