Financial Origami: How the Wall Street Model Broke

by Brendan Moynihan

Book Overview

An in-depth look at the failure of Wall Street's "proven" financial models

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into intricate and aesthetically attractive shapes. As such, it is the perfect metaphor for the Wall Street financial engineering model, which ultimately proved to be the underlying cause of the 2008 financial crisis.

In Financial Origami, Brendan Moynihan describes how the Wall Street business model evolved from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118001818
• ISBN13: 9781118001813
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"