Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff

An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billion when bond insurers kicked off the collapse of the credit markets. <ul>
<li>Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama</li> <li>Draws on unprecedented access to one of Wall Street's best-known investors</li> <li>Shows how excessive leverage, dangerous financial models, and a blind reliance on triple-A credit ratings sent Wall Street careening toward disaster</li> </ul>
Confidence Game is a real world "Emperor's New Clothes," a tale of widespread delusion, and one dissenting voice in the era leading up to the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression.

Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff

Richard, Christine

History

Bloomberg Pr

"Whitewalls" by Christine Richard is a Scottish family saga set in the present day.  The family home on the banks of the River Tweed in southern Scotland is the heart of the family and the haven to which the four generations return on a regular basis.  Four generations of the Douglas's appear on the surface to have a life which is really idyllic - beautiful homes, happy family lives genuine warmth and stability in a fast changing world.  Then, into this "Scottish Eden" real life intrudes and Rosie, the matriarch of the family finds her ordered and lovely world turned upside down.  This book is full of interesting locations, characters, animals, painting, gardens, food and much more including intrigue, triumphs and defeats."

Whitewalls

Literature & Fiction

New Generation Publishing

Les dix commencements - Les joies de l'après divorce

Humor & Satire

MICHEL LAFON

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