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Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: It was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor. Yet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees — and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase. Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. What went wrong? In House of Cards bestselling author and former investment banker William…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the «Great Men» who worked there allowed the firm to…