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L’année 2015 marque un tournant. En mars, une vedette de Wall Street, Blythe Masters, ancienne de la banque JP Morgan célèbre pour avoir inventé les CDS (credit default swap, des instruments financiers controversés, associés à la crise bancaire de 2008), est nommée PDG d’une start-up blockchain,
Stéphane Loignon • Big Bang Blockchain. La seconde révolution d'internet (ACTUALITE SOCIETE) (French Edition)
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis
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Eisman, predisposed to suspect fraud in the market, wanted to bet against Americans who had been lent money without having been required to show evidence of income or employment.
Michael Lewis • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Sam had handed Ryan his checkbook and told him to buy office space and as much worker housing as fast as possible without worrying about the cost. No man was ever so good at not worrying about the cost as Ryan. In a matter of weeks, he had snapped up between $250 and $300 million in real estate, including $153 million worth of condos in an expensiv
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Donald Durant understood the common person, someone élite bankers, including the Higginsons, had politely ignored for decades. Since the Civil War, bankers had focused on wealthy institutions: first the railroads, then industrial companies, and most recently foreign corporations and governments. But now that individual human beings, men and women,
... See moreFrank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
By the end of this walk I was totally sold. I called my friend and said something like: Go for it! Swap shares with Sam Bankman-Fried! Do whatever he wants to do! What could possibly go wrong? It was only later that I realized I hadn’t even begun to answer his original question: Who was this guy?