by PhilipAugar (Author)
In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and cheered on by an excitable media, the bankers became the heroes of the age. And then in the summer of 2007 everything began to collapse. Barely a year later the City was in tatters. Greed, guile and excess - this definitive insider's account charts an intoxicated decade and cogently reveals just how, and why, the City got it so badly wrong.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 009952404X
ISBN 13: 9780099524045
Book Overview: The definitive insider's history of Britain's financial services sector over the last decade, by one of our leading City commentators.