The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System

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Overview

In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history. In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance, made many of our country's most fabled financial institutions vulnerable to significant new foreign control, and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of poor and middle-class American families.

Editorial Reviews

Financial Times
“A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone--colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story.”
New York Post
“Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct.”
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New York Review of Books
The most comprehensive anecdotal account to date of the crisis.... Gasparino cuts his way through Wall Street rhetoric and in the process uncovers in considerable detail how blind profit-making ambition led to the destruction of the markets.
PR Week
“Born in the Bronx to a construction worker and a housewife, Gasparino has risen from his working-class roots to become one of the most influential business reporters at work today.”
San Antonio Express-News
“Charles Gasparino sees the guts of Wall Street and the wreckage it leaves behind, day in and day out.”
Vanity Fair
“An especially aggressive reporter.”
Wall Street Journal
“[A] splendid account of the financial meltdown.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061697166
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 11/3/2009
  • Pages: 553
  • Sales rank: 339,560
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles Gasparino

Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network, a columnist for the Daily Beast and the New York Post, and a freelance writer for Forbes and other publications. Previously, he was the on-air editor for CNBC and wrote for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Blood on the Street, which was listed by Barron's as one of the Best Business Books of 2005, and King of the Club, which Library Journal named one of the Best Business Books of 2007.

Table of Contents

Key People xiii

Key Firms xix

Prologue 1

Part I Let's Make Money

1 Fun and Games 9

2 Power and Perks 38

3 Sex, Drugs, and Debt 53

4 An Education in Risk 65

Part II Merchants of Debt

5 Bigger Is Better 87

6 Financial Renaissance 103

7 Paying the Price 120

8 One Big Happy Family 130

9 Opening the Floodgates 151

10 No More Mother Merrill 164

11 The Money Machine 181

12 Perverse Incentives 196

13 Top of the World 206

14 Cash Stops Flowing 226

Part III What's the Worst that Could Happen?

15 No Clue 245

16 The Dancing Stops 289

17 The End Begins 330

18 "There Are Rumors That You Guys Are in Trouble" 392

19 Free Fall 411

20 The Rescue 441

21 Bailout Nation 463

Epilogue 479

Afterword 501

Glossary 505

Acknowledgments 511

Notes 513

Index 535

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  • Posted November 28, 2009

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    The truth hurts.

    This is the true story of how greed and leverage in the hands of unchecked CEO's and "hands off" and oblivious boards of directors wrecked the Wall Street Firms. Every member of Congress should read this and recognize the need to re-regulate capital requirements and leverage. Until they do, the public is not safe, our country is not safe, and our money is not safe. The book is worth having, if for no other reason, that for keeping next to my bed, so I can re-read how Stan O'Neal was fired over and over again whenever I want to. Now, that's a good bedtime story.

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  • Posted January 2, 2010

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    The Sellout, a review of recent events

    The Sellout was interesting and insightful as a review of the recent events of our economic travails. Having lived through them in a very real sense over the last two years, it was useful to have them catalogued in a neat and orderly fashion. Gasparino's writing is fine, not stellar, but also not boring.

    Approx. 1/4 of the book was focused on the events leading up to the crisis, and 3/4 of the book discussed the crisis itself. My low marks are due to the book not being what I expected. I wanted a better understanding of the history of what got us to this point. The discussion of the historical events were a thumbnail sketch of why this occurred. The majority of the book focused on Merril, Bear, MS, and the others.

    Gasparino has world class contacts and access to the inner circles of these organizations and therefore I should have expected most of the book would be focused on his area of expertise. He's an extremely bright guy; I just feel the writing could have been elevated somewhat, and the discussion of historical events could have been provided in greater detail.

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  • Posted January 18, 2010

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    Gasparino does a good job in identifying the main characters and explaining his assesment of the causes of the financial blowout that led to the greatest recession of a life-time.

    Sellout explains that the causes of the current problem with the financial industry was decades in the making. Gasparino does not flinch in laying responsibility for the problem on those he believes were negligent, incompetent or greedy.

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  • Posted October 24, 2011

    Gain a better understanding of the causes and events leading to the financial collapse

    The book provides a narrative of some of the inner-workings of wall street. It explains the evolution of the business and the events leading to the latest financial crisis including the role of the federal government. A lot of "inside baseball" as to the personalities, competition and risk-taking of the players. I would recommend the book to anyone who is interested in gaining a better understanding as to the cause of the crisis as well as the "boom and bust" cycle in general.

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  • Posted June 15, 2011

    Highly recommended

    This book should be categorized under the "history" section, vice business. The book highlights, in layman terms and understanding, the evoltion of a financial debacle; from the late seventies to the current near melt-down. Well done Charlie!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2010

    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This is a great book! Gasparino really hits the mark and tells the extremely scary truth behind the banking/mortgage crisis. I am a broker of a small company and the book confirmed all my beliefs. Everyone of my partners wants to read the book since I go to work every day and tell them more of what Gasparino has to say. It will be passed along to every one of them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 20, 2010

    Readable Summary Of Key Wall Street Events, Companies, & Personalities

    The book was enjoyable to read and helped me to clarify a number of things in my mind. In general, it helps the reader better understand why the recent financial panic occurred and how a number of major financial companies and key personalities were involved. I had followed the financial news somewhat during the panic but more closely at some times than others, depending on my work and family schedule. It can be difficult to put everything together into a "big picture" from on again / off again watching / reading of daily news. This book helped to fill in some knowledge "holes" in my mind and develop a more complete picture of what happened and where we are now. It also reached back far enough in time (but not too far back) to "set the stage" well for putting more recent events into perspective.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2010

    easy read

    While I may not understand the technicalities of all the financial instruments it still got the message across as stated in the title. I think it should have been tougher on the Federal Govt agencies and politicians based on what I have read in the press.

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