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The weekend that changed wall street, and how the fallout is still impacting our world, Maria Bartiromo, with Catherine Whitney

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The weekend that changed wall street

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Maria Bartiromo, with Catherine Whitney

and how the fallout is still impacting our world

During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG became a ward of the federal government. Top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo spent the entire weekend taking frantic phone calls from the most powerful players on Wall Street and in Washington, as they toiled to keep the economy from complete collapse. Those CEOs and dozens of other sources gave Bartiromo behind-the-scenes details--unavailable to other members of the media--of the crisis and its aftermath. Now she draws on her high-level network to provide an eyewitness account of the biggest events of the financial crisis. Writing with both authority and dramatic flair, Bartiromo tackles the big questions: how did an unmatched period of market euphoria and growth turn sour, catapulting the economy into a dangerous slide? And in the long run, how will the near-catastrophe really change Wall Street?--From publisher description

Nightmare on Liberty Street -- The bubble machine -- Zombies at Lehman -- Down to the wire -- Death sentence and champagne -- Fallout -- Popcorn and dominoes -- The aftershocks -- A Greek tragedy -- Capitalism in the balance -- Epilogue