{"product_id":"when-giants-fall-no-algorithm-9798181863972","title":"When Giants Fall: The Ten Biggest Bankruptcies in Modern History and the Debt, Fraud, Bad Bets, and Market Crashes That Destroyed Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Giants Fall\u003c\/b\u003e is a clear and serious business history book about ten of the largest corporate collapses in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual to Enron, WorldCom, General Motors, China Evergrande, PG\u0026amp;E, Conseco, CIT Group, and Energy Future Holdings, this book examines how famous companies and financial giants reached the point of failure. Some were destroyed by debt. Some were weakened by fraud. Some made bad bets at the wrong moment. Others were brought down by market crashes, legal liabilities, liquidity pressure, or business models that no longer worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a sensational crime story and it is not a technical legal guide. It is a plain English account of how large organizations can appear strong while serious weaknesses grow beneath the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach case shows a different path to collapse, but the patterns are often familiar: too much borrowing, misplaced confidence, aggressive growth, weak controls, hidden risk, and leaders who waited too long to face reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for readers interested in business history, financial crises, corporate failure, banking, restructuring, and the warning signs behind major collapses, \u003cb\u003eWhen Giants Fall\u003c\/b\u003e explains why the biggest failures rarely begin on the day they become public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey begin years earlier, when the cracks are still easy to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e No Algorithm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181863972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"No Algorithm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173725577471,"sku":"9798181863972","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-giants-fall-no-algorithm-9798181863972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}