One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense , Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation’s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.
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3rd floor on 745th 7th Avenue huh ????
评分#2008.8.6 借 The worst book ever. 开篇是一堆无聊的自传，中间又夹杂着各种loaded terms 贩卖政治私货. what's worse than reading such a lousy book is that I actually paid a dollar for it.
评分Not a journalism specimen but pretty informative, 10 years later.
评分世上本无黑天鹅。在雷曼兄弟内部，很早就有人意识到了房地产市场和各种信用衍生产品的危险，但在市场火热的时候，他们的声音完全被淹没了。
评分despite the real/ not real questions questions, reading this book is like watching a stallone action movie...for good for bad
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