A first-class catastrophe the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
"The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Henry Holt and Company
2017
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991005073059706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Part One. Vanishing borders. Silver Thursday
- Bright ideas
- Chicago vs. New York
- Shifting gears
- A deal in D.C.
- Stock futures, bond failures
- Part Two. Titans and wizards. A plague from Oklahoma
- Bulls and banks
- Chicago rising
- Arbitrage and accommodation
- Banks on the brink
- Part Three. Contagion. Mergers and mutations
- Berkeley rising, banks falling
- Witching hours
- Rational markets?
- Pandora's portfolios
- January omens, July alarms
- Part Four. Reckoning. The worst weeks ever
- 508 points
- Juggling hand grenades
- Placing blame, dodging reality
- Epilogue
