Vol. 9, Issue 2 Going for Broke How Robert Campeau Bankrupted the Retail Industry, Jolted the Junk Bond Market, and Brought the Booming Eighties to a Crashing Halt By: John Rothchild 286 pp. Simon & Schuster 1991 Review by: Lydia Morris Brown

The 1980s were full of outlandish wheeling and dealing, mystical accounting, and phenomenal financial calamities. Incomprehensible greed and stupidity ravaged the economy, and Going for Broke is a fitting epilogue to this money-mad era. Without injecting any armchair psychoanalysis, Rothchild manages to convey the dysfunction surrounding not only Campeau, but also the entire investment banking industry. It is a tale that is at once infuriating, frightening, and funny, and serves to remind us that the country’s economic leaders need to make major readjustments in their financial philosophies.

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