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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Maybe someday
30
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Readers
44/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
David Enrich
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
February 18, 2020
A New York Times business reporter delves into the corrupt corporate culture of one of the world's most powerful financial institutions and its ties to the current U.S. President.
What The Reviewers Say
David Enrich delivers a master class in financial sleuthing. The New York Times’ financial editor follows the money, plows through paper and talks to dozens of people in the bank’s ecosystem. There are names, places and computer files. This is a first-rate read.
Dark Towers offers a compelling, if familiar, thesis: that unchecked ambition twisted a pillar of German finance into a reckless casino and fostered a culture in which amorality and, ultimately, criminality thrived. Deutsche is intriguing not only because its leaders chased growth at any cost—resulting in mountains of losses, as it always does—but because it once was the emblem of European institutional lending, the near-opposite of Wall Street short-termism.
A revelatory book...that also has all the elements of a page-turning mystery novel.
... excellent, deeply reported.
