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Brendan Moynihan is an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where he manages the popular column "Chart of the Day" and writes about the economy and Wall Street. He has been with the company since 2006, after spending more than twenty years on Wall Street as a trader and risk manager. Moynihan is the author of Trading on Expectations (Wiley) and coauthor of What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars. He lives in Barrington Hills, Illinois, with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing a book on English grammar.
Author's Note | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Fold Sides to Center | p. 1 |
Commercial Banks | p. 5 |
Savings and Loans | p. 9 |
Securities Firms | p. 10 |
Transferring Risk | p. 12 |
End of an Era | p. 14 |
Result, Turn Over | p. 17 |
The Three Derivatives | p. 22 |
Options | p. 23 |
Futures | p. 24 |
Swaps | p. 25 |
Fold Sides to Center, Again | p. 29 |
Changing the Rules | p. 33 |
A New Environment | p. 36 |
Investing in Mortgages | p. 39 |
Banker Incentives | p. 42 |
Fold Tip to Point | p. 45 |
Other People's Money: Equity | p. 50 |
Agents Transferring Risk Become Principals Taking It | p. 53 |
Fold Point Back | p. 59 |
Rules, Refold, Rave, Ruin | p. 64 |
A New Environment | p. 66 |
A New Risk | p. 68 |
Fold in Half | p. 75 |
Mortgage Origami | p. 78 |
Subprime Origami | p. 81 |
The Rating Game | p. 82 |
Banker Incentives | p. 86 |
Manufactured Product | p. 89 |
Pull Neck Upright | p. 91 |
Low Volatility, Low Risk | p. 96 |
The CDS Market Develops | p. 98 |
More Insurance Than Needed | p. 101 |
Opaque Markets | p. 103 |
Other People's Money: Debt | p. 106 |
Pull Head to Suitable Angle | p. 109 |
Vindicating Greenspan | p. 115 |
How, Not Will, You Pay? | p. 117 |
Broken Markets | p. 119 |
Complete | p. 125 |
What's Wrong with Wall Street? | p. 130 |
Government-Sponsored Enterprises | p. 131 |
Government-Sanctioned Credit-Rating Agencies | p. 137 |
Banks | p. 139 |
What's Right with Wall Street? | p. 141 |
Epilogue | p. 147 |
Notes | p. 153 |
About the Author | p. 157 |
Index | p. 159 |
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