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WEALTH VIRTUES
A Guide to acquire more money than you spend and to save more
money than you owe
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.660973
EAN: 9780767930895
Edition: 1 Reprint
ISBN: 0767930894
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: February 09, 2010
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: February 09, 2010
Studio: Anchor
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A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The effects would be felt nationwide, as the country suddenly found itself in the grip of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression. William Cohan exposes the corporate arrogance, power struggles, and deadly combination of greed and inattention, which led to the collapse of not only Bear Stearns but the very foundations of Wall Street.
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Author comes to subject with conclusions firmly in mind and of course turns out to be wrong: his hero, Jimmy Cayne, was the one who brought Bear down! He has to stop favoring the sources who talk to him.
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David Ellis Dickerson is a man of many talents. One of his talents is writing - evidently anything from greeting cards to memoirs. However, none of his talents seem transferable to the corporate world, as outlined in the hilarious and poignant memoir, //House of Cards//.
At the age of twenty-six, the talented, witty, and literate Dickerson lands his "dream job," writing greeting cards for Hallmark. But it is soon apparent - from such indicators as receiving a disciplinary notice for ... Read More
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Did you know that Wall Street is 2500 miles from Orlando Florida? Page 1 of this book tells us this.
The real distance is more like 1080 miles. Why should this error matter for a financial book? Fact checking is important, and if the author, editors, and publishers can't find an error this blatant and basic 2 lines into the narration, something is critically wrong.
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I respectfully disagree with several other reviewers who said this book was clearly written. It's clear perhaps for investment bankers. I have an MBA from a top business school and I got lost in the numbers and just skimmed them. The only numbers that really stood out for me were the compensation ones. What does one do with $20 million annual salary?
Even if the numbers weren't completely accurate, William Cohan gives the reader a good sense of the Wall Street culture and personalities. ... Read More
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I think this book should have a disclaimer on the front that warns potential readers of its detail. I would not recommend this book for those who are not marginally familiar with investment banks and the way they make money. The book is written like an interesting term paper using interviews with key players and technical writing. As other reviewers have written, you will be reading with Wikipedia up on the computer and just glossing over certain sections that you do not understand. With that being said, ... Read More
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