Separating Fools from Their Money

A History of American Financial Scandals

AvScott B. MacDonald

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street?These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals beginning with young republic days through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. Informative and entertaining, this book reveals human nature in all of its dubious shades of grey. It also exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over time—greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few.This second edition features a new preface and introduction, plus three new chapters, which address the financial panic of 2008, post-panic scandals, and the "princes of Ponzi." This book's accessible writing will interest the casual business reader as well as the seasoned investor.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-01-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Separating Fools from Their Money
Antal sidor:363
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9781412855006

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Scott B. MacDonald is a senior managing director and head of research at MC Asset Management Holdings, LLC. His numerous books include European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations; A History of Credit and Power in the Western World; and Asia's Rise in the 21st Century. Jane E. Hughes is a director at Social Finance US. She is an adjunct professor at Simmons College School of Management and Boston College Carroll School of Management. Hughes co-authored, with Scott B. MacDonald, International Banking and, with Scott B. MacDonald and David Leith Crum, New Tigers and Old Elephants.

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Revised Preface1. Introduction2. Wall Street Loses Its Innocence: William Duer and the Panic of 17923. The Gilded Age Part I: All That Glitters4. The Gilded Age Part II: Of Presidents and Bankers5. Teapot Dome Erupts6. Empires Undone: Samuel Insull, the Emperor of Utilities7. The Decade of Greed: Michael Milken, Junk Bonds, and Insiders (1980s)8. The Decade of Greed, Continued: Where the Money Is9. The 1990s B.E. (Before Enron): A Few Bad Apples, or Rotten to the Core?10. Enron Etc. Vol. I: Crooks, Liars, and Envelope-Pushers11. Enron Etc. Vol. II: Enablers, Symbols, and Scapegoats12. Eliot the Untouchable (Spitzer, not Ness)13. ConclusionPostscript: The Financial Panic of 2007-2008Selected BibliographyIndex

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