In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and cheered on by an excitable media the bankers became the heroes of the age. And then in the summer of 2007 everything began to collapse. Barely a year later the City was in tatters. Greed guile and excess - this definitive insider's account charts an intoxicated decade and cogently reveals just how and why the City got it so badly wrong.
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In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and cheered on by an excitable media the bankers became the heroes of the age. And then in the summer of 2007 everything began to collapse. Barely a year later the City was in tatters. Greed guile and excess - this definitive insider's account charts an intoxicated decade and cogently reveals just how and why the City got it so badly wrong.
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