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All the Devils Are Here
- The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of its complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together.
All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature.
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- Olly Buxton
- 28-01-20
best account of the global financial crisis so far
I have read pretty much every account of the global financial crisis out there, Greenspan, Paulson, Sorkin, Tett, Lewis, Augar - you name it - and had the dubious pleasure of being a back office legal functionary at implicated player(s!) as it all played out. For me this is the best, most financially literate, account of the lot.
No surprise really, as Bethany McLean was the journalist who uncovered Enron and, as a junior reporter, asked hard questions no one else in the market was asking.
anyway, this book fully understands the hedging strategies, the economic theory behind CDs comma and the sudden confluence of adults who were meant to be paying attention but who turned out to be asleep at the switch when everyone needed them the most.
Well narrated, although the narrator makes the schoolboy error of calling the ISDA an "eye-ess-dee-aye" rather than "izder" and curiously pronounces LIBOR "leebor". But in honesty that's the heaviest criticism I can make!
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- BFBG
- 04-09-23
Forensic and fascinating
Detailed forensic analysis of the players, actions and failures of the financial crisis. Scary to think how preventable it was and how repeatable it is.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-03-20
Eye Opening
The most detailed explanation I’ve listened to on the subject. Gobsmacked on how the whole thing unfolded.
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- KRB
- 04-12-22
Great narrator!
Dennis boutsikaris makes this come alive, as he always does. I find myself listening to books just because of his narration!
Oh and the book itself is nice too :)
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- Yiannis
- 24-01-23
insight in the 2008 financial crisis
the book delves in the practices that caused the 2008 financial crises and all the big players who
orchestrated the rise and fall of the mortgage backed derivatives. a great insight in human greed and how even the smartest people can be blinded by their own biases
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