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Michael DuffIn the two decades since then, I had been waiting for the end of Wall Street. The outrageous bonuses, the slender returns to shareholders, the never-ending scandals, the bursting of the internet bubble, the crisis following the collapse of Long-Term Capit
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Ty LaStrapesSo, you think you know what caused the world meltdown? It really all boiled down to greed & this 9 page article lays it out better than anyone yet!
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linda BathThe era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
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To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing whic
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Terry RosenOne of the greatest articles to elucidate the greatest Ponzi scheme of them all--Wall St, the banks, and insurance cos defrauding the public.
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Gary SchreinerMichael Lewis on origins of financial crisis
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Rachel C.Holy crap. Long, complicated. I understood maybe half of this- just enough to make me really angry and really scared. How we were screwed by Wall Street. November/December 2008
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Gary Myersthe end by michael lewis
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D PhilipsTo this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me.
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Mike BrownGreat article by Michael Lewis on collapse and the one hedge fund that got it.
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Tarmo ToikkanenThe era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
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Wall Street investment banks took huge piles of loans that in and of themselves might be rated BBB, threw them into a trust, carved the trust into tranches, and wound up with 60 percent of the new total being rated AAA.
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“We always asked the same question,” says Eisman. “Where are the rating agencies in all of this? And I’d always get the same reaction. It was a smirk.”
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He still didn’t fully understand how the apparatus worked, but he knew that Wall Street had built a doomsday machine.
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“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”
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The moment Salomon Brothers demonstrated the potential gains to be had by the investment bank as public corporation, the psychological foundations of Wall Street shifted from trust to blind faith.
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Helen GerhardtTo this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me.
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John TraversA highly praised lengthy account of why the wall street collapse happened.
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