Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
- ISBN-10
- 0349121893
- ISBN-13
- 9780349121895
- Category
- Bank failures.
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- Gillian Tett
Description
Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist 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.
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