{"product_id":"financial-origami-9781118001813","title":"Financial Origami","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at the failure of Wall Street''s proven financial models\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigami 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Financial Origami, Brendan Moynihan describes how the Wall Street business model evolved from a method to transfer risk into a method for manufacturing risk. Along the way, this timely book skillfully dissects financial engineering and addresses how it''s often a mechanism to evade regulatory constraints, provide institutional investors with customized products, and, of course, generate revenue for financial engineers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals how Wall Street''s financial engineering business model morphed into something destructive\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights how the origami model worked well in the comparatively stable years of the early 2000s,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bloomberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406818779479,"sku":"9781118001813","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118001813.jpg?v=1730497220","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/financial-origami-9781118001813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}