Screen LibrarySeparating fools from their money：a history of American financial scandals
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Transaction Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New Brunswick, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 264 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0765803569 (alk. paper) 9780765803566 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D917 |
| CLC: | D917 |
| Call Number: | D917/M135 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Wall Street loses its innocence: William Duer and the panic of 1792 -- 3. The gilded age part I: all that glitters -- 4.The gilded age part II: of presidents and bankers -- 5. Teapot Dome erupts -- 6. Empires undone: Samuel Insull, the emperor of utilities -- 7. The decade of greed: Michael Milken, junk bonds, and insiders (1980s) -- 8. The decade of greed, continued: where the money is -- 9. The 1990s B.E. (Before Enron): a few bad apples, or rotten to the core? -- 10. Enron etc. vol. I: crooks, liars, and envelope-pushers -- 11. Enron etc. vol. II: enablers, symbols, and scapegoats -- 12. Eliot the untouchable (Spitzer, not Ness) -- 13. Conclusion. |