A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Tapa dura - 2009

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald's Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world's toughest trading floors.We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation's oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it.The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America's--and the world's--financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.From the Hardcover edition.

Detalles

• Título A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
• Autor Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson (With)
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición First Edition
• Páginas 351
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Crown Business, New York
• Fecha de publicación 2009-07-21
• ISBN 9780307588333 / 0307588335
• Peso 1.43 libras (0.65 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.52 x 6.75 x 1.37 pulgadas (24.18 x 17.15 x 3.48 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Financial crises - United States, Bank failures - United States
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009442068
• Dewey Decimal Code 332.6