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Title:

The great hangover : 21 tales of the new recession / edited by Graydon Carter ; from the pages of Vanity Fair.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiii, 464 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Recessions--History--21st century.
Financial crises--United States--21st century.
Madoff, Bernard L.

Other Authors:

Carter, Graydon.

Other Titles:

Vanity fair (New York, N.Y.)

Contents:

Where did all the billions go? / by Cullen Murphy -- pt. 1. Wall Street. Bringing down Bear Stearns / by Bryan Burrough -- Profiles in panic : Wall Street high society in free fall / by Michael Shnayerson -- Wall Street lays another egg : derivatives and mathematical models / by Niall Ferguson -- Over the hedge / by Bethany McLean -- Wall Street's $18.4 billion bonus / by Michael Shnayerson -- The man who crashed the world : Joe Cassano and A.I.G. / by Michael Lewis -- pt. 2. Washington. Good billions after bad : the bailout money / by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele -- Capitalist fools : five key mistakes that led us to the collapse / by Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Fannie Mae's last stand / by Bethany McLean -- Henry Paulson's longest night / by Todd S. Purdum -- pt. 3. Beyond. Wall Street on the tundra : the implosion of Iceland's economy / by Michael Lewis -- Rich Harvard, poor Harvard / by Nina Munk -- Pirate of the Caribbean : the mystery of Allen Stanford / by Bryan Burrough -- The inheritance : Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the decline of the newspaper business / by Mark Bowden -- Marc Dreier's crime of destiny / by Bryan Burrough -- Wall Street's toxic message : global consequences of the meltdown / by Joseph E. Stiglitz -- pt. 4. The Madoff chronicles. Part I : Madoff's world / by Mark Seal -- Part II : "Hello, Madoff!" -- what the secretary saw / by Mark Seal and Eleanor Squillari -- Part III : Did the sons know? / by David Margolick -- Part IV : Ruth's world / by Mark Seal -- Part V : Greenwich mean time -- the Noel family / by Vicky Ward -- Afterword : The blame. The 100 people, companies, institutions, and vices to blame for getting us into this mess / by Bruce Feirstein.

Summary:

Presents a collection of essays commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine on the current global economic crisis by such authors as Bryan Burrough, Mark Bowden, and Mark Seal.

ISBN:

0061964425 (pbk.)
9780061964428 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)422763829

LCCN:

2011410126

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)