Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
- ISBN-10
- 0385534973
- ISBN-13
- 9780385534970
- Series
- Money and Power
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-12
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- William D. Cohan
Description
The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success. From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable than all of its competitors. Behind closed doors, however, the firm constantly straddles the line between conflict of interest and legitimate deal making, wields significant influence over all levels of government, and upholds a culture of power struggles and toxic paranoia. And its clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007—unknown to its clients—may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recession worse. Money and Power reveals the internal schemes that have guided the bank from its founding through its remarkable windfall during the 2008 financial crisis. Through extensive research and interviews with the inside players, including current CEO Lloyd Blankfein, William Cohan constructs a nuanced, timely portrait of Goldman Sachs, the company that was too big—and too ruthless—to fail.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2022-02-03
- 400 pages
- Paperback
- Atlantic Books (UK)
-
- 2021-02-04
- 397 pages
- Paperback
- Atlantic Books
Similar books
-
The Power of Money: How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World
By Robert PringleRecently, a new global money space has been created, a joint venture between the public and private sector. This book explores the new money society that has grown up to inhabit this new space.
-
The Money Power: Empire of the City and Pawns in the Game
By William Guy Carr, Edwin Charles Knuth"The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns in the Game" and "Empire of the City", which present the thesis that the wars and revolutions of modern times have been engineered by an English-speaking finance oligarchy ...
-
Money Power: A Force for Freedom Or Slavery?
By Isac BomanThe text flows smoothly and at times has the feel of reading a detective novel.
-
The Power Of Money: How You See Money Is How You See Yourself
By Sonia Nadina HaynesThis book could be the mentor that speaks to you and guides you to your truth of how to go about achieving financial abundance.
-
Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami
By Ilias AlamiThis book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets.
-
Power, Money & Sex: How Success Almost Ruined My Life
By Deion SandersBut what he finds when he reaches the pinnacle of success is not the glory he had expected. This is Deion's story, in his own words, with all the drama, hope, glamour, and surprise of his true-life adventures.
-
Money and Power: Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development
By Sarah BrackingSarah Bracking explores the role of governments and development finance institutions in managing the markets in which the poorest countries operate. These institutions - the 'Great Predators' - are trapping...
-
More Money, More Power?: Uncover Your Unique Money Design to Discover the Key to Your Innate Power and Wealth
By Darcie ElizabethThe book and accompanying e-course will lead you on an inner journey through which you discover the power to choose how your relationship to money will unfold.
-
The Power of Money: A Political-Economic Analysis with Special Emphasis on the American Economic System
By Henry L. BrettonYet significant aspects of how money works in society are concealed by myths, dogmas, and misperceptions. In The Power of Money Henry Bretton focuses on how money works in a democracy.
-
Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic
By Christopher W. ShawYet the situation was vastly different a century ago, as Christopher W. Shaw shows. This book upends the conventional thinking that financial policy in the early twentieth century was set primarily by the needs and demands of bankers.