Having Tea with My Daemons: A Memoir of the 2008 Financial Crisis - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

The book is a memory flash of the 2008 financial crisis. It recounts several public known events and some non-public stories from the perspective of a witness and a passer-by.

The first part of the book "Money, Crisis, Love and Souls" includes several infamous events and public figures that I encountered during my years in JP Morgan and Barclays.
The second part "Ordinary People’s lives" contains non-public stories that are either authentic or inspired from various peoples’ life experiences. For the sake of privacy, I have masked the identity of each character by using pseudonym.

Table of Content

Prelude
Part I - Money, Crisis, Love and Souls
I. An Encounter with the CEO
Enchanted
A Spectacular Dismissal
II. The Libor Scandal
Bob Diamond and Barclays
The Aftermath
III. JP Morgan's 33rd floor
Falling from the Sky
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
We Suffer More in Our Imagination
IV. Emerging Markets (EM) Trading
BarCap’s EM Desk
2014 Russia’s Invasion in Ukraine
South America, Argentina Crisis
V. London Whale
Is the Whale French?
Trading Strategies Deployed
An Open Letter
VI. The Windrush Generation
British National Overseas
Will to Survive!
VII. Central Bank
The Bank of England
The Governor - An “Outsider”?

Part II - Ordinary People's lives
VIII. Housing in London
Taking a Mortgage in London
Buy or Let
Redundancy
IX. Piano
Junior Bankers
“Je viens de Paris”
My Piano Audition for Level 6
X.. Faith
Church of England
Our Divine Inner Being
XI. Penelope, Douglas and Me
The Pregnancy
“This is the knife who went to the war with me!”
“I am a 50-Year-old, White Straight Male!”
I Had a Dream
XII. Closing Remarks

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