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Separating Fools from Their Money: A History of American Financial Scandals book cover

2nd Edition

Separating Fools from Their Money A History of American Financial Scandals

By Scott B. MacDonald Copyright 2015
363 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge
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What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money . The authors trace the history of financial scandals... Read more

Revised Preface

1. Introduction
2. Wall Street Loses Its Innocence: William Duer and the Panic of 1792
3. The Gilded Age Part I: All That Glitters
4. The Gilded Age Part II: Of Presidents and Bankers
5. Teapot Dome Erupts
6. Empires Undone: Samuel Insull, the Emperor of Utilities
7. The Decade of Greed: Michael Milken, Junk Bonds, and Insiders (1980s)
8. The Decade of Greed, Continued: Where the Money Is
9. The 1990s B.E. (Before Enron): A Few Bad Apples, or Rotten to the Core?
10. Enron Etc. Vol. I: Crooks, Liars, and Envelope-Pushers
11. Enron Etc. Vol. II: Enablers, Symbols, and Scapegoats
12. Eliot the Untouchable (Spitzer, not Ness)
13. Conclusion

Postscript: The Financial Panic of 2007-2008
Selected Bibliography
Index

Biography

Scott B. MacDonald

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