The Devil′s Casino

Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers

Vicky Ward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2010
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-470-54086-2 (ISBN)

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The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers andwhy it failedIn The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High StakesGames Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer andVanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers insideLehman's highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a muchbigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralizeddebt obligations, swaps, and leverage.A can't put it down page turner that opens the world of WallStreet to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities,except that The Devil's Casino isn't fiction. * Details what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend LehmanBrothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty yearspreceding it * Describes the feudal culture that proved both Lehman's strengthand its Achilles' heel * Written by Vicky Ward, one of today's most connected businessand finance writersOn Wall Street, Lehman Brothers was cheekily known as "the catwith nine lives." But as The Devil's Casino documents, this catpushed its luck too far and died?the victim of men and womenblinded by arrogance.

VICKY WARD has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2001, specializing in investigative reporting. She has profiled, among others, Jean-Marie Messier, Carly Fiorina, CIA agent Valerie Plame, businesswoman Louise MacBain, Morgan Stanley, the late Bruce Wasserstein, counterterrorism expert Rich-ard Clarke, Francois Pinault, the Getty, the Guggenheim, Fairfield Greenwich Group (a Madoff feeder fund), Brooke Astor, and Kate Moss. Ward is a weekly columnist for the Huffington Post and a contributor to CNBC. She was previously the executive editor of Talk magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the London Times, and the Daily Telegraph. A native Briton, Ward was the runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1994, Britain s most prestigious award for young women writers. She holds a master s degree in English literature from Cambridge University and has lived in New York City since 1997.

Cast of Characters. Prologue. Part One: The Ponderosa Boys. Chapter 1 A Long, Hot Summer. Chapter 2 The Beginning. Chapter 3 The Captain. Chapter 4 The Take-Under . Chapter 5 Slamex. Chapter 6 The Phoenix Rises. Chapter 7 Independence Day. Chapter 8 The Stiletto. Chapter 9 The Ides of March. Chapter 10 Eulogies. Part Two: The Echo Chamber. Chapter 11 Russian Winter. Chapter 12 Lehman s Desperate Housewives. Chapter 13 The Young Lions. Chapter 14 9/11. Chapter 15 No Ordinary Joe. Chapter 16 The Talking Head. Chapter 17 The Sacrificial Ram. Chapter 18 Korea s Rising Sum. Chapter 19 The Wart on the End of Lehman s Nose. Chapter 20 Damned Flood? Chapter 21 Closing the Books. Epilogue. A Note About the Sources. Notes. References. Acknowledgments. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2010
Verlagsort	Chichester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-470-54086-9 / 0470540869
ISBN-13	978-0-470-54086-2 / 9780470540862
Zustand	Neuware