Bloomberg has named "Crash of the Titans" one of its top 30 business books of the year, alongside popular titles such as Michael Lewis' "The Big Short," David Kirkpatrick's "The Facebook Effect" and Robert Reich's "Aftershock." Said Bloomberg's James Pressley, the book is "an exhaustive reconstruction of how Merrill Lynch & Co. sealed its own [...]
GREG FARRELL is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Merrill Lynch had paid out its 2008 bonuses a month ahead of schedule, in December, even though Merrill was in the process of losing $28 billion for the year, and Bank of America needed an extra $20 billion in taxpayer funds to complete its acquisition of the firm. That story sparked an investigation by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Greg is a past winner of the American Business Press’s Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalism. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
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