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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Nine MSN Money, August 8, 2010
...this yearâs prize from books about where economics went wrong. Reviewing Cassidyâs How Markets Fail earlier this year, Gillian Tett called it âa compelling and persuasive workâ.Meanwhile, in Fault Lines, Rajan â former chief economist at the...
Irish Times, July 29, 2010
...Analysis of Gordon Browns Decade as Chancellor of the Exchequer instead. Brown?s cunning move to go tête-à-tête with Gillian Tett ( Financial Times journalist and author of GFC frontrunner Fool?s Gold ) in the books market could still be worth a few...
Observer, June 20, 2010
...was for works that told the inside story of the crash while fingering the culprits – books like Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold, about the invention of collateralised debt obligations and other fiendish financial instruments, and Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too...
Huffington Post, May 23, 2010
...Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds ** The Princess Of Cleves by Madame DeLafayette *** 1/2 Fair Game by Gillian Tett *** 1/2 The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century edited by Pauline Matarasso WORST INTERVIEW OF THE FEST Mike...
BNet, April 30, 2010
...lifelong learners among us as well. Here are a few that made the list: by Rakesh Khurana by Gillian Tett The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, by Michael Walzer Talent Is Never...
Seeking Alpha, April 26, 2010
...week or so is their humanity. These Wall Street villains talk like human beings, like you and me. Gillian Tett, in my mind, has a terrific opinion piece in the Financial Times this morning titled ." Her reflection on the e-mails is captured in the...
Yahoo! News, April 20, 2010
...How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe (Free Press, reprint 2010), by Gillian Tett, which Brooks says is a great companion to the more recent The Big Short (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010), by Michael Lewis, which is a...
Seeking Alpha, March 15, 2010
...reveals a great deal about the process of financial innovation and only slightly less about the news business. Gillian Tett, of the Financial Times, was the first to market. is an origin story wrapped in a morality tale. It has much in common with Tracy...
EconomicPrincipals.com, March 14, 2010
...and only slightly less about the news business. But few who are not duty-bound will read all three. Gillian Tett , of the Financial Times , was the first to market. Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by...
Financial Times, March 4, 2010
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...
Financial Times - UK Homepage, April 14, 2010
...s ex-grandees strain to keep cool - Apr-08 Financial crisis tale to make the blood boil - Mar-24 Gillian Tett: The US battle to pull the props - Feb-18 In depth: Global financial crisis - Sep-04 You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you...
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...
