Panic: the story of maodern financial insanity/
Panic: the story of maodern financial insanity/
Modern financial insanity
[edited by] Michael Lewis.
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2009.
- viii, 391 p. ; 25 cm.
Pt. 1. A brand-new kind of crash : Riding the wild bull / Stephen Koepp --
The crash of '87: Chicago's "shadow markets" led free fall in a plunge that began right at opening / Scott McMurray, Robert L. Rose --
from The Brady Commission Report --
from Black Monday: the catastrophe of October 19, 1987 ... and beyond / Tim Metz --
from Liar's poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis --
The lonely feeling of small investors / Stephen Labaton --
Yuppies' last rites readied / Richard J. Meislin --
from What goes up / Eric J. Weiner --
Did the computer cause the crash? / Lester C. Thurow --
Crash-proofing the market; a lot of expert opinions, but few results / Terri Thompson --
Short circuits / The Economist --
Crash course: Black Monday's biggest lesson: don't run scared / Robert J. Shiller --
from After the Crash / Franklin Edwards.
Pt. 2. Foreigners gone wild : Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson --
Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times --
A Thai business wonders, will it all crumble? / David Holley --
Reporter associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson --
Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist --
Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs --
How the eggheads cracked / Michael Lewis --
10 years after the Asian crisis, we're not out of the woods yet / Joseph Stiglitz --
Asia's long road to recovery / Keith Bradsher --
Tracking an online trend, and a route to suicide / Choe Sang-Hun.
Pt. 3. The new new panic : Bigger Netscape offering / The New York Times --
Underwriters raise offer price for Netscape Communication / The New York Times --
With Internet cachet, not profit, a new stock is Wall St.'s darling / Laurence Zuckerman --
How net fever sent shares of a firm on a 3-day joy ride / Carrick Mollenkamp, Karen Lundegaard --
"New new money," from The New New Thing / Michael Lewis --
Cooling it: Wall Street firms try to keep Internet mania from ending badly / Rebecca Buckman, Aaron Lucchetti --
Burning up / Jack Willoughby --
from Dot.con: The greatest story ever sold / John Cassidy --
The high price of research: caveat investor: stock and research analysts covering dot-coms aren't as independent as you think / Erick Schonfeld --
Fumble.com: Internet companies threw millions into the air at the Super Bowl. They're still pretending they scored a touchdown / Katharine Mieszkowski --
Meet the dumbest dot-Com in the world / Mark Gimein --
The financial page: how mountebanks became moguls / James Surowiecki --
Dot coms: what have we learned? / Jerry Useem --
In defense of the boom / Michael Lewis.
Pt. 4. The people's panic : "How to get rich in real estate," from Dave Barry's Money secrets / Dave Barry --
Shaky foundation: rising home prices cast appraisers in a harsh light / John Hechinger --
The next crash / John Cassidy --
As bubble speculation rises, industry sees little fear / Robert Julavits --
This is the sound of a bubble bursting / Peter S. Goodman --
Opening statement of Chairman Christopher Dodd: hearing on "Mortgage market turmoil: causes and consequences" / Christopher Dodd --
Subprime homesick blues / James Surowiecki --
Triple-A failure / Roger Lowenstein --
from "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" / Larry Roberts --
Bear CEO's handling of crisis raises issues / Kate Kelly --
What Wall Street's CEOs don't know can kill you / Michael Lewis --
The Bear flu: how it spread / David Henry, Matthew Goldstein --
A Wall Street trader draws some subprime lessons / Michael Lewis --
After the money's gone / Paul Krugman --
Hedge funds come unstuck on truth-twisting, lies / Matthew Lynn --
Trader made billions on subprime / Gregory Zuckerman --
Glossary.
9780393065145
Financial crises--History
Financial crises--History
Finance--Psychological aspects.
Investments--Psychological aspects.
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Pt. 1. A brand-new kind of crash : Riding the wild bull / Stephen Koepp --
The crash of '87: Chicago's "shadow markets" led free fall in a plunge that began right at opening / Scott McMurray, Robert L. Rose --
from The Brady Commission Report --
from Black Monday: the catastrophe of October 19, 1987 ... and beyond / Tim Metz --
from Liar's poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis --
The lonely feeling of small investors / Stephen Labaton --
Yuppies' last rites readied / Richard J. Meislin --
from What goes up / Eric J. Weiner --
Did the computer cause the crash? / Lester C. Thurow --
Crash-proofing the market; a lot of expert opinions, but few results / Terri Thompson --
Short circuits / The Economist --
Crash course: Black Monday's biggest lesson: don't run scared / Robert J. Shiller --
from After the Crash / Franklin Edwards.
Pt. 2. Foreigners gone wild : Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson --
Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times --
A Thai business wonders, will it all crumble? / David Holley --
Reporter associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson --
Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist --
Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis --
from Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs --
How the eggheads cracked / Michael Lewis --
10 years after the Asian crisis, we're not out of the woods yet / Joseph Stiglitz --
Asia's long road to recovery / Keith Bradsher --
Tracking an online trend, and a route to suicide / Choe Sang-Hun.
Pt. 3. The new new panic : Bigger Netscape offering / The New York Times --
Underwriters raise offer price for Netscape Communication / The New York Times --
With Internet cachet, not profit, a new stock is Wall St.'s darling / Laurence Zuckerman --
How net fever sent shares of a firm on a 3-day joy ride / Carrick Mollenkamp, Karen Lundegaard --
"New new money," from The New New Thing / Michael Lewis --
Cooling it: Wall Street firms try to keep Internet mania from ending badly / Rebecca Buckman, Aaron Lucchetti --
Burning up / Jack Willoughby --
from Dot.con: The greatest story ever sold / John Cassidy --
The high price of research: caveat investor: stock and research analysts covering dot-coms aren't as independent as you think / Erick Schonfeld --
Fumble.com: Internet companies threw millions into the air at the Super Bowl. They're still pretending they scored a touchdown / Katharine Mieszkowski --
Meet the dumbest dot-Com in the world / Mark Gimein --
The financial page: how mountebanks became moguls / James Surowiecki --
Dot coms: what have we learned? / Jerry Useem --
In defense of the boom / Michael Lewis.
Pt. 4. The people's panic : "How to get rich in real estate," from Dave Barry's Money secrets / Dave Barry --
Shaky foundation: rising home prices cast appraisers in a harsh light / John Hechinger --
The next crash / John Cassidy --
As bubble speculation rises, industry sees little fear / Robert Julavits --
This is the sound of a bubble bursting / Peter S. Goodman --
Opening statement of Chairman Christopher Dodd: hearing on "Mortgage market turmoil: causes and consequences" / Christopher Dodd --
Subprime homesick blues / James Surowiecki --
Triple-A failure / Roger Lowenstein --
from "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" / Larry Roberts --
Bear CEO's handling of crisis raises issues / Kate Kelly --
What Wall Street's CEOs don't know can kill you / Michael Lewis --
The Bear flu: how it spread / David Henry, Matthew Goldstein --
A Wall Street trader draws some subprime lessons / Michael Lewis --
After the money's gone / Paul Krugman --
Hedge funds come unstuck on truth-twisting, lies / Matthew Lynn --
Trader made billions on subprime / Gregory Zuckerman --
Glossary.
9780393065145
Financial crises--History
Financial crises--History
Finance--Psychological aspects.
Investments--Psychological aspects.
338.542 / LEW/P