Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (signed)

Martin, Iain

ISBN 10: 147111354X / ISBN 13: 9781471113543

Published by Simon and Schuster UK, 2013

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Signed. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy (signed)
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147111354X
• ISBN 13: 9781471113543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Based on more than 80 interviews and with access to diaries and papers kept by those at the heart of the meltdown. this is the definitive. extraordinary account of how the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland tipped Britain into its deepest economic downturn in decades The collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). which had to be bailed out by the taxpayer in the financial crisis of October 2008. played a leading role in tipping Britain into its deepest economic downturn in seven decades. The economy shrank. bank lending froze. hundreds of thousands lost their jobs. living standards are still falling. and Britons will be paying higher taxes for decades to pay the clean -up bill. How on earth had a small Scottish bank grown so quickly to become a global financial giant that could...

About the Author

Iain Martin is a journalist and broadcaster. He comes from Paisley (as does Fred Goodwin). Iain was editor of The Scotsman newspaper from 2001-2004, and then its sister paper Scotland on Sunday from 2004-2006. In 2006 he moved to The Sunday Telegraph, where he was deputy editor. He has since been a columnist on politics for various newspapers: The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail. He contributes to Financial News and Standpoint magazine. He has presented editions of Beyond Westminster, Week in Westminster and What the Papers Say for BBC Radio 4. He lives in London.