Gillian Tett's Books
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Fool's GoldThe fascinating, unknown story at the heart of the current financial crisis by the award-winning journalist who warned of the crash well in advance.Read More
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Financial Times, March 4, 2010
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PR Newswire, March 1, 2010
...Financial Services, Personnel Announcements NEW YORK, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Financial Times today announces the appointment of Gillian Tett as US managing editor, overseeing the FT's print and online editions in the region. Tett, currently...
Seeking Alpha, February 14, 2010
...borrow money overnight and continue its operations. A wonderful read, if perhaps too long. Fool's Gold - Gillian Tett, a brilliant columnist with the Financial Times, wrote this book on the financial engineers who blew up the financial world with their...
InvestorPlace.com, February 13, 2010
...Bear to borrow money overnight and continues its operations. A wonderful read if too long. Fools Gold - Gillian Tett is a brilliant columnist with the Financial Times and out together a great little piece of history with a book on the financial engineers...
Associated Content, January 19, 2010
... Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett is a book about how a small group of bankers at JP Morgan created a device which nearly cause the entire global economy to collapse. The book is an...
Gulf News, December 31, 2009
...By Robert SkidelskyA reminder that Keynes had analysed many recent problems 70 years earlier. Fool's Gold By Gillian Tett Drawing on her coverage of the meltdown, Tett explains how the market brought destruction on itself...
Examiner.com, December 29, 2009
...and finance books in 2009: 1. The Myth of the Rational Market, Justin Fox 2. Fool’s Gold, Gillian Tett 3. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford 4...
Money Week, December 22, 2009
...£12.99 Financial innovations don't destroy financial systems, people destroy financial systems. This, at least, is how Gillian Tett sees it. So when she considered the financial crisis, she did so via a study of the tribe at JP Morgan who unleashed...
Guardian.co.uk, December 11, 2009
...argues that the central culprit is an idea – the uncritical adoption of unworkable and 'utopian' free-market concepts," Gillian Tett wrote in the Financial Times, reviewing How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities . "Cassidy's book is to be...
Chicago Tribune, December 6, 2009
...a phone call or search online. Disaster insight. Among the many books just released, two good reads are Gillian Tett's 'Fool's Gold' and Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail.' Tett, an anthropologist turned financial journalist for the Financial Times,...
TwinCities.com, December 6, 2009
...call or search online. Understand the financial disaster. Among the many books just released, two good reads are Gillian Tett's "Fool's Gold" and Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail." Tett, an anthropologist turned financial journalist for the...
Chicago Tribune, December 5, 2009
...a phone call or search online. Disaster insight. Among the many books just released, two good reads are Gillian Tett's "Fool's Gold" and Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail." Tett, an anthropologist turned financial journalist for the Financial Times,...
Telegraph, November 27, 2009
...by Colm Tibn (Viking, 17.99) were my three novels of the year. Among non-fiction, Fools Gold by Gillian Tett. The best cookbook: David Chang and Peter Meehans Momofuku (Clarkson N Potter, 24.28). Julie Myerson Anita Brookners Strangers (Fig Tree, 16.99)...
Telegraph, November 27, 2009
...Colm Tóibín (Viking, £17.99) were my three novels of the year. Among non-fiction, Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett. The best cookbook: David Chang and Peter Meehan’s Momofuku (Clarkson N Potter, £24.28). Julie Myerson Anita Brookner’s Strangers (Fig...
Telegraph, November 25, 2009
...Beautiful and humbling memoir about the authors childhood with his epileptic brother in Broughton Castle. Fools Gold by Gillian Tett Little, Brown, 2009 16.99 Tett argued that it was bankers greed, not derivatives, that caused the credit crunch. 39 A...
Telegraph, November 13, 2009
...and humbling memoir about the authors childhood with his epileptic brother in Broughton Castle. 40 Fools Gold by Gillian Tett Little, Brown, 2009 16.99 Tett argued that it was bankers greed, not derivatives, that caused the credit crunch. 39 A Royal Duty...
Huffington Post, September 17, 2009
...Dream of a Small Tribe at JP Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, Gillian Tett --Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, John Taylor --House of...
Michigan Live, September 11, 2009
...dumbing it down - like how he effortlessly summed up for me the last book he's read, Gillian Tett's "Fool's Gold" on the Wall Street meltdown. His biggest drawback is his scant five years in office. But as the speaker detailed how the political process...
Infectious Greed, September 1, 2009
...the Year. The picks aren't too surprising (despite being forced to leave out the FT's own Gillian Tett's excellent Fool's Gold), with a cross-section of financial crises and management self-help books, leavened by one peak-oil text and a few...
The Hindu, August 24, 2009
...the making of ingredients that contributed to the crisis unbeknown to the team which created them FOOLS GOLD: Gillian Tett; Little, Brown, 100 Victoria Embankment, London EV4Y ODY. £ 12.99. Journalists, economists, and bankers are churning out studies...
Guardian Unlimited, August 4, 2009
...bumper selection of history and finance. Antony Beevor's D-Day was the most popular, recommended nine times, while Gillian Tett's analysis of the global financial crisis, Fool's Gold, came in with five. Other popular non-fiction included Philip Hoare's...
MSNBC Newsweek, July 21, 2009
...might have beneficially cut this 468-page book, it makes you live and feel the crisis as no other. Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe finds a nice...
Advertising Age, July 6, 2009
...he receives it. In the meantime, he plans to stick with print media, reading 'Fool's Gold,' by Gillian Tett, and then 'The Zookeeper's Wife,' by Diane Ackerman. But others must face the digital quandary head-on, weighing the benefit of a portable,...
Seeking Alpha, June 6, 2009
...Feldman) Too much government: Meltdown (Thomas Woods), Bailout Nation (Barry Ritholtz).Bubbles: (Robert Shiller) Greed/Hubris: Fool's Gold (Gillian Tett), Meltdown (Paul Mason), Chain of Blame (Muolo and Padilla), Looting of America (Les Leopold),...
Seeking Alpha, May 18, 2009
...are no longer following Felix Salmon About this author: Font Size: Print Email My full 18-minute interview with Gillian Tett for Reuters TV, talking about Gillian?s new book, is now up: I definitely make a better blogger than TV presenter, but...
This Is Money, May 18, 2009
...manager shares his secrets. John Maynard Keynes Can he save us from the the crisis? Saving the Sun Gillian Tett on what happened when Japan's banks were in crisis. The Great Crash Galbraith's classic study of economic disaster. Cityboy A former trader...
Edinburgh Evening News, May 16, 2009
...intriguing premise which should keep you turning the pages. 8/10 Review by Anita Chambers Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett is published by Little Brown, priced £18.99. The seeds of meltdown were planted, says award-winning Financial Times staffer Gillian...
Reuters, May 15, 2009
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Wall Street and Technology, May 15, 2009
...and also how JPM avoided some of the huge losses tied to the financial crisis. Author and journalist Gillian Tett, assistant editor, Financial Times, talks about her new book, 'Fool's Gold' in which she analyzes J.P. Morgan and its role in the financial...
Telegraph, May 2, 2009
...ordinary investors aka suckers as Paul Mason puts it. Communism collapsed in 1989. Cable agrees with Mason and Gillian Tett that the death knell for fundamentalist capitalism sounded 10 years later, although no one heard it. On November 12 1999,...
EconomicPrincipals.com, March 19, 2009
...China will rise. Globalization itself may founder.? Next came two of the paper?s most admirable reporters, Gillian Tett on finance and Krishna Guha on monetary policy ? Tett?s book, Fool?s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P....
First Friday Book Synopsis, December 29, 2009
...and finance books in 2009: 1. The Myth of the Rational Market , Justin Fox 2. Fool’s Gold , Gillian Tett 3. Shop Class as Soulcraft , Matthew B. Crawford 4. How Did That Happen? , Tom Smith 5. Rapt , Winifred Gallagher 6. In Fed We Trust , David...
FP Passport, December 21, 2009
...to open a bank account for her underage sons. Blake Hounshell: In Fool’s Gold , Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett tells the story of a lovable group of J.P. Morgan bankers who invented credit default swaps in the early 1990s, only to find out...
Business on HuffingtonPost.com, October 21, 2009
...Ross Sorkin , Barry Rithholtz , Books , Charlie Gasparino , David Faber , David Wessel , Duff Mcdonald , Economy , Edmund Andrews , Financial Crisis , Gillian Tett , Lawrence Mcdonald , Patrick Robinson , Richard Posner , Wall Street , William Cohan ,...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands, September 26, 2009
...the primary Ezra Klein: Medicare Part 'E' Ken Rogoff: How Will World Leaders Fix the Financial Mess? Gillian Tett: The ghosts of AIG prosper Brad Setser: Bridging to Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth Tim Duy's Fed Watch: Rushing to...
Short Stack, August 11, 2009
...a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe" by Gillian Tett. The title says it all. Gillian Tett is a gifted columnist and editor for the Financial Times and this book is for all of us who are still trying...
Libertarian Democrat Point Of View: A Diary, May 18, 2009
...From Reuters:"The full Gillian Tett interview Post a comment (3) Posted by: Felix Salmon Tags: derivatives My full 18-minute interview with Gillian Tett for Reuters TV, talking about Gillian’s new book, is now...
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page, May 18, 2009
...Felix Salmon submits: My full 18-minute interview with Gillian Tett for Reuters TV, talking about Gillian’s new book, is now up: I definitely make a better blogger than TV presenter, but there’s some good stuff in here...
Wall Street & Technology: Blog, May 14, 2009
...and also how JPM avoided some of the huge losses tied to the financial crisis. Author and journalist Gillian Tett, assistant editor, Financial Times, talks about her new book, "Fool's Gold" in which she analyzes J.P. Morgan and its role in the financial...
Talking Biz News, April 21, 2009
...Nouriel Roubini for Forbes would be unassailable choices. The FT is loaded with the likes of Krishna Guha , Gillian Tett and Martin Wolf. Justin Lahart for the WSJ would be a good choice as well. Gretchen Morgenson for the NYT deserves one. Mike Whitney...
Portfolio.com: Market Movers, March 26, 2009
...other arbitrages too. And of course, there's the narrower problem that journalists -- including Guha's colleague Gillian Tett, whose book I'm reading now -- have a habit of looking at the level of the ABX and using that as the actual trading level of...
