What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen (Google eBook)

Eric J. Weiner

Hachette Digital, Inc., Oct 15, 2007 - Business & Economics

The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed, and the glory--this is the story of Wall Street told by the men and women who made it happen. For those who want to understand how Wall Street became what it is, who want to know how the biggest deals really happened, who wish they had been a fly on the wall when it all went down--from the birth of the mutual fund to the Internet bubble, from trading scandals to global meltdowns--WHAT GOES UP is the book.

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Review: What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

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Wall Street in snippets...some great (9/11 chapter), others not so much.

Review: What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen

User Review - Goodreads

A great story about the history of major players who were engaged in the development of Wall Street. Whether your a hardened investor or new to investing this book may give your alot of knowledge into how the financial system became what it is today.

Contents

• Prologue: 3
• PART: 9
• Good Time Charlie: 11
• White Shoes: 26
• Our Crowd: 37
• Intrinsic Value: 53
• Blackballed: 71
• GoGo Boys: 87
• Power to the People: 108
• Corned Beef with Lettuce: 126
• The Paper Crunch: 140
• Kismet Funds: 149
• Mayday: 160
• Magellan Finds Its Navigator: 170
• The Thundering Herd: 175
• HighTech Market: 187
• A License to Print Money: 212
• Culture Clash: 246
• Dawn of a Bull Market: 264
• Killing the Golden Goose: 300
• The Technology Age: 339
• Digital Babylon: 346
• A Riskless Transaction: 358
• The Empire: 382
• Market Messengers: 392
• Bubble Bath: 406
• More Than Just Business: 424
• Must Come Down: 439
• EPILOGUE: 463
• Acknowledgments: 483
• Bibliography: 491

Popular passages

Page 12 - The advice we have given important corporations can be followed to advantage by all classes of investors. We do not urge that you sell securities indiscriminately but we do advise in no uncertain terms that you take advantage of present high prices and put your financial house in order.‎

About the author

Eric J. Weiner has covered business and economics issues for fifteen years as a writer and editor. His critically acclaimed first book, "WHAT GOES UP: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen", was published in September 2005 by Little, Brown and Company, and was selected as one of the year's best books by "Barron's" magazine and one of the year's "Most Enriching Reads" by "Kiplinger's". He is a former columnist and reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and he has written for "The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice", and countless other major publications. He also is a contributor to the news and opinion website "The Huffington Post". He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Paige and their son, Jake.

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen
• Author: Eric J. Weiner
• Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc., 2007
• ISBN: 0316030708, 9780316030700
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic History