Barbarians at the Gate isn’t really about a scandal (despite the dramatic title). It’s more about the emergence of private equity and the invention of junk bonds on the RJR Nabisco takeover and corporate America going holy living f.uck these guys can really take out large cap corporates (albeit piling them up with what were previously considered insane levels of debt).
You should have pivoted to corporate crime. You seem to like criminal stuff. Naughty people doing naughty things. You're slightly perverted. Why not, why stick to what you were doing? Re-tool. Dude.
You might also enjoy Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of crowds (altho i understand a lot of that is actually apocryphal bollox, still a good read)
Thought they were smart. Ivy league. MBAs from Wharton. Get them to change the valves on a norton manx? No chance. Ask them to strike up a blues riff on a Les Paul? You are joking.
Liar's Poker is the obvious (but still true) answer
Not a scandal as such - more a clash of cultures thing - there's a good book about the Essex born chap who became CEO of Olympus (or possibly Sony?) that's worth a read. Woodford I think he names as/is
Barbarians at the gate
Old news now, but 'Barbarians at the Gate'.
'Manipulation on Trial' about the Hunt brothers in the silver market.
Snap.
Shredded about rbs is pretty good
Good recent one - and possibly the only interesting book ever to have been written about insurnace...
Dead in the Water
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Not strictly a corporate scandal - more industry-level intrigue
Smartest Guys in the Room - the film of the same name is v v g
ooh, sounds good
I have read BATG but not for years, will read that again some time
anything good about Maxwell? I did read N Person’s book years ago
When Genius Failed
Flash Boys
Black Edge
Spider Network
All financial services focused.
Trollope - The Way We Live Now
house of wirecard and money men by dan mccrum are good
Didn't realise house of wirecard was out yet: cool
There is a wework book which I found absolutely tedious and stopped reading tbh
Liars Poker
The Big Short
Wework is not that interesting as a scandal. It just seemed to revolve around the founder being a twot.
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Barbarians at the Gate isn’t really about a scandal (despite the dramatic title). It’s more about the emergence of private equity and the invention of junk bonds on the RJR Nabisco takeover and corporate America going holy living f.uck these guys can really take out large cap corporates (albeit piling them up with what were previously considered insane levels of debt).
What was the one about Enron ?
Well, Lucy Prebble's play, 'Enron'. V v good even as a read.
You should have pivoted to corporate crime. You seem to like criminal stuff. Naughty people doing naughty things. You're slightly perverted. Why not, why stick to what you were doing? Re-tool. Dude.
Exposure. Michael Woodford. Re Olympus.
Key Man about Abraaj
Too big to fail.
You might also enjoy Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of crowds (altho i understand a lot of that is actually apocryphal bollox, still a good read)
Traders Guns and Money - a potted history of how derivatives cause huge financial crashes.
Boo Hoo is a good read about the original boo.com
A classic dotcom money pit
Spider Network would be a gr7 one for you laz. It's all about LIBOR fixing.
“Billion dollar whale” about the Malaysian investment fund
Wolf of Wall Street
Bloke sets up brokerage firm. Rips off working class folk. Takes ‘ludes. Margot Robbie goes full frontal. His business ptr eats a goldfish.
"Fooling some of the people all of the time" by David Einhorn. A bit full of himself, but an interesting read.
Will read that Trunnie! Thanks.
+1 for each of Shredded and Flash Boys.
Not sure i would describe Barbarians at the Gate as being about corporate scandal, but a great book nonetheless.
Chambers - the smartest guys in the room
Thought they were smart. Ivy league. MBAs from Wharton. Get them to change the valves on a norton manx? No chance. Ask them to strike up a blues riff on a Les Paul? You are joking.
The Hard Sell if you're not bored of corporate opioid pushers.
Liar's Poker is the obvious (but still true) answer
Not a scandal as such - more a clash of cultures thing - there's a good book about the Essex born chap who became CEO of Olympus (or possibly Sony?) that's worth a read. Woodford I think he names as/is
Bad Blood (re Theranos) was pretty good.
I see that Pinot has beaten me to it, but saw the discussion on the ROF front page and came here to recommend:
Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower, Michael Woodford
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Exposure-President-Whistleblower-at-Olympus-ebook/dp/B009K6DLAQ
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