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The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis
Bob Ivry
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Description for The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis
Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLX; JPQB; KCP; KFFK; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510.
We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing,and should make us not just afraid but very afraid,are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executives and the ways the government kowtows to what it mistakenly imagines is their competence and success. Ivry shows that the only thing that has changed since the meltdown is how too-big-to-fail banks and their fellow travellers ... Read more
We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing,and should make us not just afraid but very afraid,are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executives and the ways the government kowtows to what it mistakenly imagines is their competence and success. Ivry shows that the only thing that has changed since the meltdown is how too-big-to-fail banks and their fellow travellers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610393652
SKU
V9781610393652
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99-15
About Bob Ivry
Bob Ivry is an editor and investigative reporter for Bloomberg News. His articles have won many awards, including the George Polk Award in 2009 and the Gerald Loeb Award in 2008. Ivry has been a regular contributor to Esquire, Popular Science, Maxim, and the Washington Post Book World, and has published short fiction in Esquire and Ploughshares. Follow him on ... Read more
Reviews for The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis
"Ivry writes with high indignation punctuated by occasional light touches, and he has a talent for deconstructing financial jargon. Yet his intent is utterly serious, and his book ought to become a standard text for the Occupy Wall Street and similar movements... To judge by this angry book, the denizens of Wall Street are doing all they can to obstruct ... Read more