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Panic : the story of modern financial insanity / edited by Michael Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2009.Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 391 pages ; 25 cm.ISBN:
  • 9780393065145
  • 9780393337983
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB3722 .P36 2009
Contents:
Pt. 1. A brand-new kind of crash. Riding the wild bull / Stephen Koepp — The crash of '87: Chicago's shadow markets' led free fall in a plunge that began right at opening / Scott McMurry & Robert L. Rose — From the Brady Commission Report —From Black Monday : the catastrophe of Oct 18, 1987... and beyond / Tim Metz — From Liar's poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis — The lonely feeling of small investors / Stephen Labaton — Yuppies' last rites readied / Richard J. Meislin — What goes up / Eric J. Weiner —Did the computer cause the crash? / Lester C. Thurow — Crash-proofing the market; a lot of expert opinions but few results / Terri Thompson — Short circuits / The Economist — Crash course: Black Monday's biggest lesson: don't run scared / Robert J. Shiller — pt. 2. Foreigners gone wild. Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson — Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times (NYT) — A Thai business wonders, will it all crumble? / David Holley — Reporter associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman — From Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson ; Interview with Jeffrey D Sachs — Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist — Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis — How the eggheads cracked / Michael Lewis — 10 years after the Asian crisis, we're not out of the woods yet / Joseph Stiglitz — Asia's long road to recovery / Keith Bradsher — Tracking an online trend, and a route to suicide / Choe Sang-Hun.
Summary: When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we should have learned from experience.

Pt. 1. A brand-new kind of crash. Riding the wild bull / Stephen Koepp — The crash of '87: Chicago's shadow markets' led free fall in a plunge that began right at opening / Scott McMurry & Robert L. Rose — From the Brady Commission Report —From Black Monday : the catastrophe of Oct 18, 1987... and beyond / Tim Metz — From Liar's poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis — The lonely feeling of small investors / Stephen Labaton — Yuppies' last rites readied / Richard J. Meislin — What goes up / Eric J. Weiner —Did the computer cause the crash? / Lester C. Thurow — Crash-proofing the market; a lot of expert opinions but few results / Terri Thompson — Short circuits / The Economist — Crash course: Black Monday's biggest lesson: don't run scared / Robert J. Shiller — pt. 2. Foreigners gone wild. Mutual funds quarterly report; the forecast looks brighter for adventure travel / Reed Abelson — Thailand warns currency speculators / The New York Times (NYT) — A Thai business wonders, will it all crumble? / David Holley — Reporter associate Jeremy Kahn, "Saving Asia" / Paul Krugman — From Frontline's "The Crash" / Interview with Rob Johnson ; Interview with Jeffrey D Sachs — Finance and economics: a detour or a derailment? / The Economist — Pulling Russia's chain / Michael Lewis — How the eggheads cracked / Michael Lewis — 10 years after the Asian crisis, we're not out of the woods yet / Joseph Stiglitz — Asia's long road to recovery / Keith Bradsher — Tracking an online trend, and a route to suicide / Choe Sang-Hun.

When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we should have learned from experience.

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