The Bankers: How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees
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As recently as 2007, the Irish economy was still booming and the state coffers overflowing; by the end of 2008, the state faces an unprecedented crisis. The story of the Irish banking collapse is a tawdry tale of collusion, back-scratching and denial among bankers, developers, regulators and politicians. This is the story Shane Ross – independent Senator, long-time champion of citizens against misbehaving corporations, and Journalist of the Year 2009 – tells in The Bankers, going behind the scenes and the headlines to explain what happened, how it happened and who made it happen. They’re all here: Sean FitzPatrick, Michael Fingleton and the other bank bosses; Patrick Neary and his colleagues in Ireland’s failed regulatory apparatus; the property developers, whose borrowings ruined the banks, and many of whom are now personally ruined; and the politicians, whose policies helped inflate the property bubble and who have allowed the banks to dictate the terms of their bail-out. Shane Ross knows the stories of these people and what they got up to, and in The Bankers he makes sense of a scandal that will haunt Ireland for years to come.
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Weight | 0.5 kg |
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Dimensions | 3.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Pages | 320 |
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Year Published | 2010-6-3 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0141044446 |
About The Author | Shane Ross is Business Editor of the Sunday Independent and an independent member of the Irish Senate. |
Pleasingly indiscreet … In particular it's his anecdotes about politics and business that … differentiate it from the other chronicles of the collapse of the boom. |
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Other text | A hugely entertaining writer … this is a serious book that is never boring, an engaging, personal account of the most tumultuous period in Ireland's economic history. |
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