![]() ![]() Take the following: "Jamie Dimon's black Lexus pulled away from the curb of his Park Avenue apartment to head down to the Fed at just before 8am. A reader uninitiated in the detail of the crunch will need it: there are seemingly endless descriptions of the men (and one or two women) involved. ![]() It's not a bad visual metaphor for investment bankers, except that they are still here.Īndrew Ross Sorkin's blow-by-blow account of the unfolding of events in the US, when financial titans up to and including Goldman Sachs were days, or even hours, away from running out of liquidity, gives a handy dramatis personae of those inhabiting Wall Street's Jurassic Park, in the manner of a compendious Russian novel. T he cover illustration to this doorstopper account of the credit crisis is a picture of a dinosaur, suggesting that within we will learn about deadly but doomed beasts, whose evolutionary deficiencies will consign them to extinction. ![]()
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