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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825593903321

Autore

O'Brien Justin (Peter Justin)

Titolo

Engineering a financial bloodbath : how sub-prime securitization destroyed the legitimacy of financial capitalism / / Justin O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-75977-9

9786612759772

1-84816-217-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

332.743

Soggetti

Financial institutions - State supervision

Capital market - State supervision

Financial crises

Subprime mortgage loans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title-vignette.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. A capital battle -- 2. The price of failure -- 3. Apportioning blame -- 4. The moral hazard of intervention -- 5. The new mercantilism -- 6. Enhancing integrity through design.

Sommario/riassunto

In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: "When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as music is playing, you have got to get up and dance. We're still dancing." By the end of the year, Mr Prince was forced to resign along with some of the most influential bankers on Wall Street. Global investment houses in the United States and Europe were forced to turn to sovereign wealth funds for emergency funding. Their rescue comes at a significant material and reputational