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

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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.

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ISBN-13:	9780061697173
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/19/2010
Pages:	557
Product dimensions:	8.28(w) x 11.80(h) x 1.42(d)

About the Author

Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Channel, where he reports on major developments in the world of finance and politics. A former writer for the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, he has also served as a columnist for the New York Post and The Huffington Post as well as a contributor to The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, and Forbes. Gasparino is a recipient of numerous business journalism awards, including the prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for The Sellout. His other noteworthy books include Blood on the Street and King of the Club.

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

What People are Saying About This

Mark Whitaker

“Gasparino has consistently broken news on some of the biggest financial scandals of recent years, including the fall of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Jack Grubman. As anyone who reads the business pages knows, Charlie is one of the best reporters in the field.”

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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.

PR Week

Gasparino has consistently broken news on some of the biggest financial scandals of recent years, including the fall of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Jack Grubman. As anyone who reads the business pages knows, Charlie is one of the best reporters in the field.

Mark Whitaker

[A] splendid account of the financial meltdown.

Wall Street Journal

Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct.

New York Post

[A] splendid account of the financial meltdown.” — Wall Street Journal
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. — New York Review of Books
“Gasparino has consistently broken news on some of the biggest financial scandals of recent years, including the fall of Martha Stewart, Henry Blodget, and Jack Grubman. As anyone who reads the business pages knows, Charlie is one of the best reporters in the field.” — Mark Whitaker, former editor, Newsweek
“Gasparino describes, in page-turning detail, a Wall Street world of ruthless financial titans.… No collection of courtroom documents will ever tell the story…as well as Mr. Gasparino does.” — Wall Street Journal, on King of the Club
“A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone—colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story.” — Financial Times
“An especially aggressive reporter.” — Vanity Fair
“Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct.” — New York Post
“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.” — PR Week
“Charles Gasparino sees the guts of Wall Street and the wreckage it leaves behind, day in and day out.” — San Antonio Express-News

From the Publisher

An especially aggressive reporter.

Vanity Fair

Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct.

New York Post

Charles Gasparino sees the guts of Wall Street and the wreckage it leaves behind, day in and day out.

San Antonio Express-News

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.

New York Review of Books

A tough outsider willing to go to battle with anyone—colleague or contact-in pursuit of the story.

Financial Times

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