Extreme Money
The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
Paperback Engels 2011 9780273723974Samenvatting
'A true insider’s devastating analysis of the financial alchemy of the last 30 years and its destructive consequences. With his intimate first-hand knowledge, Das takes a knife to global finance and financiers to reveal its inner workings without fear or favor.'
-Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics
'Das describes the causes of the financial crisis with the insight and understanding of a financial wizard, the candor and objectivity of an impartial observer, and a wry sense of humor that reveals the folly in it all.'
Brooksley Born, former chairperson of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Once upon a time human society built things. We engineered beautiful objects and created authentic goods. Now this real industrial engineering has been replaced by financial engineering: shuffling money in an endless process of debt, trading and speculation. It’s enabled vast fortunes to be made for a few, while the risk was borne by ordinary people – the 'privatisation of gain' and 'socialisation of losses'.
Extreme Money tells the story of spectacular and dangerous money games and those elite bankers, traders and financiers, the so-called Masters of the Universe, who continue to play them. Written by an insider, Extreme Money will show you how, little by little, we’ve all become slaves to financial alchemy and have been enchanted by our own illusory creation: the cult of global finance.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Sub-prime dialects
Best in show
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Retreat
Swiss inquisitions
Idea of an investment
Ambush
Mega presentations
Fording streams
Liquidity and leverage
Democracy of greed
Pick and pay
Black Sea real estate
Life on the margin
Racing days
Dr Doom
Extreme money
Part 1 Faith
1 Mirror of the times
Some kinda money
Trading places
The invention of money
Barbarous relic
The real thing
The Hotel New Hampshire
Collapse
Money machines
Debt clock
Money is nothing
The mirrored room
2 Money changes everything
Mrs Watanabe goes to Wall Street
FX Beauties Club
Plutonomy
Trickling down, trading up
I shop, therefore I must be!
Spend it like Beckham!
Golden years
Tax avoidance
Japanese curse
The god of our time
3 Business of business
Limited consciences
A brilliant daring speculation
Dirty tricks
Marriages and separations
The house that Jack built
Capital ideas
WWJD – watch what Jack did!
Business dealings
4 Money for sale
It’s a wonderful bank!
Pass the parcel
Loan frenzy
Plastic fantastic money
Casino banking
Confidence tricks
The Citi of money
Sign of the times
5 Yellow brick road
Monumental money
The battle of the ‘pond’
Cool Britannia
Barbarian invasions
Unlikely centres
El-Dollardo economics
The unbalanced bicycle
Foreign treasure
Fool’s gold
Liquidity vortex
6 Money honey
Printing it
Column inches
Video money
Studs, starlets
Financial porn
Speedy money
Literary money
Money for all
Part 2 Fundamentalism
7 Los Cee-Ca-Go boys
Dismal science
Chicago Interpretation
Economic politics
Academic warfare
The Gipper and the Iron Lady
Political economy
New old deal
The monetary lens
Unstable stability?
8 False gods, fake prophecies
Mystery of price
Demon of chance
Corporate M&Ms
Risk taming
Slow and quick money
Corporate practice
Everything is just noise
Perfect worlds
Financial fundamentalism
Fata morgana
Part 3 Alchemy
9 Learning to love debt
Fixed floor coverings
By the bootstraps
Leverage for everything
Cutting to the bone
Professor Jensen goes to Wall Street
Drowning by numbers
Censored loans
High opportunity bonds
Fallen angels
Junk people
Milken’s mobsters
The sweet envy of bankers
Thank you for borrowing
One bridge too far
National treasure
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