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- Greenspan, Alan. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. New York: Penguin Press, 2007.
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Summary: "The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life's journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d'horizon of the global economy. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy." -- Publisher's Product Description
- McLean, Bethany and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: the Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. New York: Portfolio, 2003.
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Summary: "What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century? Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question how, exactly, does Enron make its money? Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book - fully updated for the paperback - tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Seligman, Joel and Peter Troob. The Transformation of Wall Street : a History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance. 3rd ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, c2003.
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- Lowenstein, Roger. When Genius Failed : the Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. New York: Random House, c2000.
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Summary: "When Genius Failed is the cautionary financial tale of our time, the gripping saga of what happened when an elite group of investors believed they could actually deconstruct risk and use virtually limitless leverage to create limitless wealth. In Roger Lowenstein's hands, it is a brilliant tale peppered with fast money, vivid characters, and high drama." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Rolfe, John. Monkey Business : Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle. New York: Warner Books, 2000.
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Summary: "Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates about to become frustrated foot soldiers for the world of high finance. 20 hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters and strip club lap dances make escaping with their sanity sound like the best deal of all." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Jorion, Philippe. Big Bets Gone Bad : Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County. San Diego : Academic Press, c1995.
Summary: "How can a municipal investment pool, which is supposed to be safe, lose billions of dollars? What are derivatives and how did they contribute to this tragedy?
In December 1994, Orange County became the largest municipality in U.S. history to become bankrupt. By borrowing heavily and placing the wrong bets, Orange County Treasurer Robert Citron lost $1.7 billion of Orange County's $7.4 billion investment portfolio. Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County is the first detailed description of the Orange County bankruptcy. Author Philippe Jorion, the only professor in Orange County who teaches and researches derivatives, is uniquely placed to understand the technical details of the portfolio and climate in the Orange County municipal government that encouraged the decisions that led to the bankruptcy. Big Bets Gone Bad provides an introduction to the U.S. bond market and details Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan's efforts to tighten credit. Its description of the $35 trillion derivatives market makes the losses of Barings Bank, Kashima Oil, West Virginia, and Metallgesellschaft more understandable. Big Bets Gone Bad explains what everyone should know about tax monies and public investments. Because nobody likes to lose $1.7 billion." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Burrough, Byron and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate : the Fall of RJR Nabisco. New York: Harper & Row, c1990.
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Summary: "Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time -- the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Lewis, Michael M. Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.
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Summary: "In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc." -- Publisher's Product Description
- Parrish, Michael E. Securities Regulation and the New Deal. New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.
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