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By Gillian Tett

Subjects: Recessions, Financial crises, Management, Kredietcrisis (2008-), Economic history, 21st century, Bankenkrise, Bank failures, Credit, Derivat <Wertpapier>, Credit control, Kreditkontrolle, Finanzkrise, Credit, management, Debt, Derivative securities

Description: Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch.