Extreme Money

The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Pearson Education | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9780273723974
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Pearson Education e druk, 2011 9780273723974
Onderdeel van serie Financial Times Series
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'A true insider’s devastating analysis of the financial alchemy of the last 30 years and its destructive consequences.  With his intimate first-hand knowledge, Das takes a knife to global finance and financiers to reveal its inner workings without fear or favor.'

-Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics

 

'Das describes the causes of the financial crisis with the insight and understanding of a financial wizard, the candor and objectivity of an impartial observer, and a wry sense of humor that reveals the folly in it all.'

Brooksley Born, former chairperson of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

 

Once upon a time human society built things. We engineered beautiful objects and created authentic goods. Now this real industrial engineering has been replaced by financial engineering: shuffling money in an endless process of debt, trading and speculation. It’s enabled vast fortunes to be made for a few, while the risk was borne by ordinary people – the 'privatisation of gain' and 'socialisation of losses'.

 

Extreme Money tells the story of spectacular and dangerous money games and those elite bankers, traders and financiers, the so-called Masters of the Universe, who continue to play them. Written by an insider, Extreme Money will show you how, little by little, we’ve all become slaves to financial alchemy and have been enchanted by our own illusory creation: the cult of global finance.

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ISBN13:9780273723974
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Hoofdrubriek:Economie

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<p><strong>Prologue: Hubris</strong></p> <p>Sub-prime dialects</p> <p>Best in show </p> <p>The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living</p> <p>Retreat</p> <p>Swiss inquisitions</p> <p>Idea of an investment</p> <p>Ambush</p> <p>Mega presentations</p> <p>Fording streams</p> <p>Liquidity and leverage</p> <p>Democracy of greed</p> <p>Pick and pay</p> <p>Black Sea real estate</p> <p>Life on the margin</p> <p>Racing days</p> <p>Dr Doom</p> <p>Extreme money</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Part 1 Faith</strong></p> <p><strong>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mirror of the times</strong></p> <p>Some kinda money</p> <p>Trading places</p> <p>The invention of money</p> <p>Barbarous relic</p> <p>The real thing</p> <p>The Hotel New Hampshire</p> <p>Collapse</p> <p>Money machines</p> <p>Debt clock</p> <p>Money is nothing</p> <p>The mirrored room</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>2 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Money changes everything</strong></p> <p>Mrs Watanabe goes to Wall Street</p> <p>FX Beauties Club</p> <p>Plutonomy</p> <p>Trickling down, trading up</p> <p>I shop, therefore I must be!</p> <p>Spend it like Beckham!</p> <p>Golden years</p> <p>Tax avoidance</p> <p>Japanese curse</p> <p>The god of our time</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Business of business</strong></p> <p>Limited consciences</p> <p>A brilliant daring speculation</p> <p>Dirty tricks</p> <p>Marriages and separations</p> <p>The house that Jack built</p> <p>Capital ideas</p> <p>WWJD – watch what Jack did!</p> <p>Business dealings</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>4 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Money for sale</strong></p> <p>It’s a wonderful bank!</p> <p>Pass the parcel</p> <p>Loan frenzy</p> <p>Plastic fantastic money</p> <p>Casino banking</p> <p>Confidence tricks</p> <p>The Citi of money</p> <p>Sign of the times</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>5 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yellow brick road</strong></p> <p>Monumental money</p> <p>The battle of the ‘pond’</p> <p>Cool Britannia</p> <p>Barbarian invasions</p> <p>Unlikely centres</p> <p>El-Dollardo economics</p> <p>The unbalanced bicycle</p> <p>Foreign treasure</p> <p>Fool’s gold</p> <p>Liquidity vortex</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>6 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Money honey</strong></p> <p>Printing it</p> <p>Column inches</p> <p>Video money</p> <p>Studs, starlets</p> <p>Financial porn</p> <p>Speedy money</p> <p>Literary money</p> <p>Money for all</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Part 2 Fundamentalism </strong></p> <p><strong>7 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Los Cee-Ca-Go boys</strong></p> <p>Dismal science</p> <p>Chicago Interpretation</p> <p>Economic politics</p> <p>Academic warfare</p> <p>The Gipper and the Iron Lady</p> <p>Political economy</p> <p>New old deal</p> <p>The monetary lens</p> <p>Unstable stability?</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; False gods, fake prophecies</strong></p> <p>Mystery of price</p> <p>Demon of chance</p> <p>Corporate M&amp;Ms</p> <p>Risk taming</p> <p>Slow and quick money</p> <p>Corporate practice</p> <p>Everything is just noise</p> <p>Perfect worlds</p> <p>Financial fundamentalism</p> <p>Fata morgana</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Part 3 Alchemy</strong></p> <p><strong>9 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Learning to love debt</strong></p> <p>Fixed floor coverings</p> <p>By the bootstraps</p> <p>Leverage for everything</p> <p>Cutting to the bone</p> <p>Professor Jensen goes to Wall Street</p> <p>Drowning by numbers</p> <p>Censored loans</p> <p>High opportunity bonds</p> <p>Fallen angels</p> <p>Junk people</p> <p>Milken’s mobsters</p> <p>The sweet envy of bankers</p> <p>Thank you for borrowing</p> <p>One bridge too far</p> <p>National treasure</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>10 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&amp;n</strong></p>

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