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<blockquote> <p>The definitive account of Wall Street's stunning collapse</p> </blockquote> <p>From critically acclaimed investigative journalist and CNBC personality Charles Gasparino comes a sweeping examination of the most recent volatile, anxiety-ridden era in our nation's socioeconomic history. <b>The Sellout</b> traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks. It shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise. Gasparino walks readers through Wall Street's three-decades' love affair with risk, revealing a trail of culpability—from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership, to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt, to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back, to the homeowners who became convinced they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages. The ongoing tumult in financi

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Author
Charles Gasparino
Publisher
Harper Business
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061697166
Category
history
Subjects
Economics, Fiction, Philosophy
Rating
3.8 / 5 (173 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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