{"product_id":"fortunes-favored-roy-goodliffe-9781967776849","title":"Fortune's Favored: The Pleasurable Seduction of Wall Street's Willing","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorical fiction at its heroic best, set against the backdrop of Wall Street during a time when the most outrageous illicit profits were made at the expense of trusting investors. The scope and scale of corporate transgressions in the late 1990s-such as those involving Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom-surpassed anything the U.S. had seen since the years leading up to the Great Depression. The collapse of Enron marked the largest bankruptcy in he nation's history, only to be eclipsed six months later by the downfall of WorldCom under Ebbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly regarded companies were employing convoluted and often fraudulent accounting tactics to inflate earnings, conceal losses, and artificially drive up stock prices. The root of the problem was not merely a few \"bad apples,\" but systemic and structural flaws that demanded a federal statutory remedy-namely, a lack of auditor independence, lax standards of corporate governance, and significant conflicts of interest among securities analysts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Goodliffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1967776849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781967776849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authors' Tranquility Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d","brand":"Roy Goodliffe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47305755361535,"sku":"9781967776849","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e999564d-78cf-4698-af59-26a940634041.jpg?v=1758831700","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fortunes-favored-roy-goodliffe-9781967776849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}