HBO’s Wizard of Lies is back in the news with nominations for both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards!
Golden Globes full nominations here.
Chicago Tribune: “First-Class Catastrophe” is the Perfect Gift!
“Henriques notes the crash was actually seven years in the making, and she also demonstrates how it was the predicate to the financial crisis of 2008. Sadly, investors, regulators and bankers failed to heed the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns resurfaced.”
Read the full article here.
NY Times Book Review
“Henriques gives us a gripping, almost minute-by-minute account of the weeks that followed, including the posturings, the denials and the panics, as well as the “web of trust, pluck and improvisation” that pulled the markets through.”
Read the full review.
CSPAN BOOKTV INTERVIEW
Diana Henriques talked about her book, A First-Class Catastrophe, about the worst day in stock market history. On that day, October 19, 1987, the market lost 22 percent of its value. She spoke with Bloomberg View columnist Joe Nocera.
See the video.
WNYC Interview on Black Monday Anniversary
“We came so close to a system cracking meltdown, fuse blowing crisis.”
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day drop in Wall Street history. On the 30th anniversary of the crash, WNYC looks at the causes of “Black Monday” and what it reveals about the fissures that still plague our financial system. Crash Course is supported by the Park Foundation.
Link to the full series.
Bloomberg Interview on “A First Class Catastrophe”
‘The real risk was giants— all running to the same side of the boat at the same time.”
See the page on Bloomberg.com here.
NPR Article of 30th Anniversary of Black Monday
“People remembered Black Monday as a meaningless event, when in fact, it was probably the most revelatory of our crashes”
Read the full article here.