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Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett

by Kirby Fields

[28.Jul.09] :. This book examines, at a high level, what happens when a well intentioned financial innovation spins out of control and is used for nefarious ends.

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The Sucker King

by Chris Barsanti

[29.May.09] :. There’s always another sucker. It’s a truth that was just as real back in the Great Depression as it is today in the post-Bernie Madoff present. Frank Partnoy’s The Match...

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Did Hollywood inspire the meltdown men?

by Michael Smerconish [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[14.May.09] :. Forget Bernie Madoff. The Wall Street veteran who might be the real scapegoat for our country’s financial meltdown hasn’t closed a deal in more than two decades. Many presume he spent at...

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Will Gordon Gekko still be greedy in ‘Wall Street 2’?

by Julie Hinds [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[7.May.09] :. I’m probably not the only one who suspects the credit crunch was brought on by men who grew up idolizing Gordon Gekko. When director Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” came out in...

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Wall Street Noir by Peter Spiegelman [Editor]

by Michael Antman

[30.May.07] :. For desperate acts, psychosexual kinks, and a pervasive sense of fatalism, there are better places to look than the office of a CFO.

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