Among the bankers : a journey into the heart of finance
Joris Luyendijk (Author)
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed himself in the City'London's equivalent of Wall Street'for several years, speaking to over 200 people'from the competitive investment bankers and elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers, and those made redundant in the regular 'culls'. Breaking the strictly imposed code of secrecy and silence, these insiders spoke on record about what they actually do all day, how they see the toxic environment in which they work, and how they think the uninitiated see them. They confessed to feeling overwhelmed by the intransparency of our financial systems. They admitted that when Lehman Brothers went down in 2008 they hoarded food, put their money in gold, and prepared to evacuate their children to the countryside. They agreed that nothing has changed since the crash. A strange thing happens when you spend time among the bankers ... 'ou start to sympathize with them. What if the bankers themselves aren't the real enemy' What if the truth about global finance is more sinister than that'
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9781612195926, 161219592X
954038449
Introduction
Behind the wall of silence
Planet finance and the crash
Going native
Other people's money
When the call comes
Every man for himself
Islands in the fog
And now for some good news?
Godverdomme
Masters of the universe
Life in the bubble
'Nobody likes a prophet of doom'
The empty cockpit
Translated from the Dutch
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