MF Global: The Untold Story of the Biggest Wall Street Collapse Since Lehman
“There are plenty of lessons to be learned from MF Global and heart-pounding policy implications; all of which we can count on Congress to ignore at the behest of the Wall Street money and lobby machine until the next epic financial crisis.”
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