TY - BOOK AU - Gasparino,Charles TI - The sellout: how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system SN - 9780061697166 PY - 2009///] CY - New York, NY PB - Harper Business KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Avarice N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Fun and games -- Power and perks -- Sex, drugs, and debt -- An education in risk -- Bigger is better -- Financial renaissance -- Paying the price -- One big happy family -- Opening the floodgates -- No more Mother Merrill -- The money machine -- Perverse incentives -- Top of the world -- Cash stops flowing -- No clue -- The dancing stops -- The end begins --'There are rumoprs that you guys are in trouble' -- Free fall -- The rescue -- Bailout nation N2 - Offers an account of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history--not merely a recounting of the collapse of Wall Street's legendary firms, but a broad examination of the people and the forces who killed Wall Street ER -