Fiasco
Blood in the Water on Wall Street
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 24, 2009
A Businessweek Bestseller "You fail to read F.I.A.S.C.O. at your peril." —Los Angeles Times F.I.A.S.C.O. is the best-selling account of Frank Partnoy's education in the jungle of high finance from 1993 to 1995.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact lens on financial risk, with just enough bite to keep the jargon from fogging.
- Genres
- Derivatives Investing, Business Lives, White-Collar Crime
- Published
- WW Norton, March 24, 2009
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A Businessweek Bestseller "You fail to read F.I.A.S.C.O. at your peril." —Los Angeles Times F.I.A.S.C.O. is the best-selling account of Frank Partnoy's education in the jungle of high finance from 1993 to 1995. It follows the young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns to navigate a marketplace where billions of dollars are made and lost in the creation and trading of derivatives, a type of security that almost nobody fully understands.
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Seen in relief against the financial meltdown of 2008, F.I.A.S.C.O. appears ever more prescient, and in a new epilogue written for this edition, Partnoy connects his story to the central role derivatives played in that crisis.
Risk, Unpacked
A compact lens on financial risk, with just enough bite to keep the jargon from fogging.
Come here for
- Wall Street risk, stripped back
- Sharper language for a messy system
Expect
- Layered financial reading
- Insight over tidiness
Where it sits
| Business Lives | 74% |
|---|---|
| Derivatives Investing | 71% |
| White-Collar Crime | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Futures
- Authors
- Frank Partnoy
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 24, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Futures