Fool's Gold - How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets ...

Informationen zum Autor Gillian Tett is Assistant Editor for the FINANCIAL TIMES where she has worked for fifteen years. She won the British Press Award for the Financial Journalist of the Year in 2008 and 2009. She often appears on programmes such as TODAY and NEWSNIGHT and lectures widely. Klappentext Falling house prices. Rising energy and food prices. Job losses. Paralysis over whether interest rates should go up or down. Everywhere we turn! the headlines are now screaming the word 'recession'. But where did it all start? In this fast-paced! revealing book! award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch. FOOL'S GOLD is the inside story of how the credit crunch unfolded by the first journalist to predict it.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Tett
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2009
• EAN: 9781408701676
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-0167-6
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 232 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Finanzwirtschaft, Bank, Bankwesen, Wirtschaftskrise