Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Autor David Enrichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2021
Recomandăm acest volum în special pentru profesioniștii din sectorul financiar, consultanți și studenți MBA care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele interne ale unei instituții care a devenit, conform autorului, un „instrument de distrugere în masă”. În Dark Towers, observăm cum David Enrich reconstruiește meticulos ascensiunea și declinul moral al Deutsche Bank, de la sprijinirea regimului nazist până la rolul de creditor principal pentru Donald Trump, într-o perioadă în care restul Wall Street-ului îl considera pe acesta un risc inacceptabil. Ne-a atras atenția structura narativă care împletește rigoarea jurnalismului de investigație cu drama personală a lui Bill Broeksmit, executivul a cărui moarte suspectă în 2014 a declanșat o undă de șoc în sistemul bancar global. Complementar volumului Banking on Global Markets de Christopher Kobrak, care analizează expansiunea băncii prin prisma globalizării, Dark Towers acoperă zona întunecată a eticii corporative, explorând manipularea piețelor și spălarea de bani pentru interese obscure. Apreciem modul în care David Enrich continuă explorarea puterii corozive a instituțiilor de elită, temă centrală și în cealaltă lucrare a sa, Servants of the Damned. Dacă volumul lui Alan A. Block, All Is Clouded by Desire, se concentrează pe scandalul Bank of New York, Enrich extinde perspectiva, demonstrând cum o singură instituție a putut influența politica externă și stabilitatea democratică prin legăturile sale cu oligarhii ruși și regimurile autoritare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0063069210
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Custom House
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă riscurile sistemice și eșecurile de conformitate din inima finanțelor globale. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care goana după profit poate anula orice filtru etic, transformând o bancă de prestigiu într-un hub pentru activități ilicite. Este un studiu de caz fascinant despre responsabilitate corporativă, politică și mecanismele spălării de bani la cel mai înalt nivel.
Despre autor
David Enrich este editorul responsabil pentru investigațiile de business în cadrul publicației New York Times, fiind anterior editor la Wall Street Journal. Experiența sa în jurnalismul financiar i-a adus numeroase premii, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a demonta structuri complexe de corupție corporativă. În lucrările sale, precum Dark Towers și Servants of the Damned, Enrich explorează intersecția dintre putere, drept și finanțe, oferind o critică documentată a modului în care marile instituții americane și internaționale pot influența sau distorsiona actul de justiție și democrația.
Descriere scurtă
New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany
“A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia Inquirer
On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.
InDark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.
Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Dark Towersis the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
Recenzii
"Enrich compellingly shows how unchecked ambition twisted a pillar of German finance into a reckless casino where amorality and criminality thrived."
“Riveting. … A cracking read. … Devastatingly accurate. … This is an important book because it reveals how one bank, with questionable business practices to put it mildly, made it possible for Trump to bounce back from multiple bankruptcies, cast himself as a business visionary, and eventually run for president and win.”
"A revelatory book about the rise and fall of the world’s biggest bank. … Has all the elements of a page-turning mystery novel"
"Dark Towersis a devastating tale of a big bank gone bad. ... Enrich draws the reader in by focusing on the people in his story, displaying an Arthur-Miller-like eye for the worn-down Willy Lomans of today's Wall Street."
“A jaw-dropping financial thriller.”
"Enrich delivers a master class in financial sleuthing. ... A first-rate read."
“Exposes chaos and corruption at the bank that holds Trump's secrets.”
“In this case, ‘epic’ is right -Dark Towersis a mystery, a thriller, a father-son drama. Did I mention Donald Trump? It’s a distinctly American drama of greed, hubris and power that kept me racing to the finish.”
"In this masterful account of a bank gone bad, David Enrich turns financial journalism into gripping, page-turning crime reporting. Tracking the sordid history of Deutsche Bank—from financing robber barons, Nazis, and rogue states to laundering Russian money to underwriting Donald Trump to threatening global economic security — Enrich deftly delivers a compelling narrative that intertwines harrowing institutional corruption and engaging personal tales. It’s a wild ride and a great read."
“A deep-reaching look at the inner workings of Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump's lender of choice.”
"Part expose, part mystery, Enrich’s account is important because it illuminates Deutsche Bank’s excesses and Trump’s business practices. Readers of Andrew Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail, which unveiled vulnerabilities in the financial industry, will find Enrich’s more focused account equally compelling."
“New York Timesfinance editor Enrich’s immersion in this shadowy world of monetary malfeasance shows how the disreputable world of big-stakes banking could topple an equally unscrupulous president.”
“Propulsive, richly detailed…Enrich writes with verve…This journalistic tour de force hints that plenty of shocking secrets are yet to be revealed.”
"[An] excellent, deeply reported book"
"The framing of responsibility versus complicity drives Enrich’s subtle and exhaustive exploration of a critical question for today’s politics: Would Donald Trump be president without Deutsche Bank?"
“The surprisingly thrilling story of how Deutsche Bank, which loaned billions to Donald Trump, the Kushner family and Jeffrey Epstein, left a decade of destruction in its wake.”