The devil's casino [[electronic resource] ] : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / / Vicky Ward
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Ward Vicky
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The devil's casino [[electronic resource] ] : friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside Lehman Brothers / / Vicky Ward
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 332.660973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Investment banking - New York (State) - New York - History |
| Investment advisors - New York (State) - New York - History | |
| Finance - New York (State) - New York - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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' |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The devil's casino |
| ISBN: | 0-470-63824-9 |
| 1-282-68448-5 | |
| 9786612684487 | |
| 0-470-63821-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459481303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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