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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459481303321

Autore

Ward Vicky

Titolo

The devil's casino [[electronic resource] ] : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / / Vicky Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2010

ISBN

0-470-63824-9

1-282-68448-5

9786612684487

0-470-63821-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

332.660973

Soggetti

Investment banking - New York (State) - New York - History

Investment advisors - New York (State) - New York - History

Finance - New York (State) - New York - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Devil''s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers; Contents; Cast of Characters; Prologue; Part One: THE PONDEROSA BOYS; Chapter 1: A Long, Hot Summer; Chapter 2: The Beginning; Chapter 3: The Captain; Chapter 4: The "Take-Under"; Chapter 5: Slamex; Chapter 6: The Phoenix Rises; Chapter 7: Independence Day; Chapter 8: The Stiletto; Chapter 9: The Ides of March; Chapter 10: Eulogies; Part Two: THE ECHO CHAMBER; Chapter 11: Russian Winter; Chapter 12: Lehman's Desperate Housewives; Chapter 13: The Young Lions; Chapter 14: 9/11

Chapter 15: No Ordinary JoeChapter 16: The Talking Head; Chapter 17: The Sacrificial Ram; Chapter 18: Korea's Rising Sum; Chapter 19: The Wart on the End of Lehman's Nose; Chapter 20: Damned Flood?; Chapter 21: Closing the Books; Epilogue; A Note About the Sources; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil''s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity



Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can''t put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil''s Casino isn'