The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System

Name: The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
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Rating: 4.5 (148 reviews)
Author: Charles Gasparino

by Charles Gasparino

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4.5 stars from 148 reviews

553 pages~9.2 hr readPublished by WileyPublished 2009-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You want to understand what actually happened in 2008 from someone who covered it as it unfolded, not a glossy retrospective.
You're interested in how institutional arrogance and poor regulation collided to create genuine catastrophe.
You read business narratives like Liar's Poker and Barbarians at the Gate and want the Wall Street collapse told with that same narrative drive.

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You're looking for solutions or how to rebuild. This is diagnosis, not prescription.
You prefer your financial history sanitised or written from a sympathetic Wall Street perspective.
You want a short, punchy explainer. At 553 pages, this is a committed read.

About this book

The Sellout examines the collapse of Wall Street and the events leading to one of the most dramatic periods in recent American economic history. Charles Gasparino, author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, traces how three decades of greed and arrogance on Wall Street, combined with government mismanagement, weakened major American financial institutions and made them vulnerable to foreign control. The book documents how these failures damaged the financial security of millions of middle-class and poor American families.

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