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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time A Long Short Story

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ISBN-10: 0470481544

ISBN-13: 9780470481547

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: David Einhorn, Joel Greenblatt

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn's hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with a Washington, D.C.-style spin-job-attacking Einhorn and disseminating half-truths and outright lies.
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Book details

List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 1/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

David Einhorn is the President of Greenlight Capital. He is also a major contributor and board member of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. In 2006, Einhorn finished 18th in the World Series of Poker main event and donated his entire winnings of $659,730 to the foundation. Einhorn was born in 1968. He lives in Westchester County, NY, with his wife, two daughters and son. He graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University, where he earned a BA in Government from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

Foreword
Allied Capital Stock Price Chart
Who's Who
Introduction to This Edition
The Spark of a Speech
A Charity Case and Greenlight Capital
Before Greenlight
Getting the "Greenlight"
Greenlight's Early Successes
Value Investing through the Internet Bubble
Dissecting Allied Capital
Spinning So Fast Leaves Most People Dizzy
Allied Talks Back
Wall Street Analysts
The You-Have-Got-to-Be-Kidding-Me Method of Accounting
Fact-or Maybe Not
Business Loan Express
Disengaging and Re-engaging
Me or Your Lyin' Eyes?
Debates and Manipulations
Rewarding Shareholders
BLX Is Worth What, Exactly?
Would Somebody, Anybody, Wake Up?
The Government Investigates
A Tough Morning
A Spinner, a Scribe, and a Scholar
Kroll Digs Deeper
Rousing the Authorities
A $9 Million Game of Three-Card Monte
How the System Works (and Doesn't)
Hello, Who's There?
Whistle-Blower
A Naked Attack
Another Loan Program, Another Fraud
The Smell of Politics
Insiders Getting the Money Out
Greenlight Was Right � Carry On
Charges and Denials
Charges and Admissions
Late Innings
The SEC Finds a Spot under the Rug
A Garden of Weeds
A Conviction, a Hearing, and a Dismissal
Blind Men, Elephants, M�bius Strips, and Moral Hazards
Epilogue
Looking Back: As the Story Continued
The Lehman Brothers Saga
If They Asked Me, I Could Write a Book
Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow
Some Final Words to and from the SEC
The Last Word
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index