The End of Wall Street
Written by Roger Lowenstein
Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt
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Roger Lowenstein
Roger Lowenstein reported for the ‘Wall Street Journal’ for over a decade and also wrote colomns for the paper, ‘Heard on the Street’ and ‘Intrinsic Value’. His first book, ‘Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist’, was a national bestseller. Besides the ‘Journal’, Mr Lowenstein’s work has appeared in the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘New Republic’. He also writes a colomn for ‘SmartMoney Magazine’. He lives in Westfield, New Jersey and has three children.
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Reviews for The End of Wall Street
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lowenstein does a good job of taking the very complex and boiling it down to something accessible to most.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well written. It certainly provides an inside perspective on the financial melt-down events of 2008.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A highly readable narrative of the conditions that led to the crash, the reactions (or non-reactions) of major business and governmental actors, and the mop-up operations that handed public money to private interests. I wish his 'afterword' had been a bit more detailed; for instance, it's 2012, we're in a world of record corporate profits (again) and stagnant wages (again), most economic indicators show us slipping into recession (again)- only this time the U.S. government is already in huge debt. Not a very comfortable time, and Lowenstein's the kind of guy who could probably help explain it. Maybe in another book?
Two small faults: first, it's focused entirely on the U.S., which is a shame, but then, it would have been 800 pages long if he'd tried to describe the international repercussions of this shitstorm. Second, sometimes the stories are a bit too detailed, given how similar they are were. But it's so readable that I didn't mind that too much. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The best book on the financial crisis that I've seen.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have read a few books about our recent debacle and this one is excellent. It is also the most up to date. One important thing to think about this. Financial firms have taken on a much greater importance in our economy then they used to. Unfortunately, their negative actions have a much greater impact on us then the misdeeds of other sectors of the economy. When people like Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan complain about changes that will negatively impact his bank's profits, I say a big "who cares". You made so much more money then you deserved relative to your importance so that it is time that banking take its appropriate place in our economy. They have shown themselves to be bad examples of capitalism and deserve the negative consequences of any financial reforms that may come out of Congress.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I agree with LynnCar at least so far. Ive read several and will read more till I get to as close as I can to understanding what the heck happened/is happening/will happen.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Best overview of market decline in recent crisis.