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

Name: Confidence Game How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
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ISBN: 9781118010419

ISBN-10: 1118010418

ISBN-13: 9781118010419

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christine S. Richard

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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 the 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. Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama Draws on unprecedented access to one…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Christine Richard is a debt reporter for Bloomberg News who has covered financial markets in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Her coverage of the bond insurers received awards from organizations such as the New York Press Club and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Meeting



The Short Seller



The Question



Backlash



The Worst that Could Happen



The Trouble with Triple-A



Unanswered Questions



Crimes and Cockroaches



Turning the Tables



Scrutiny



The Black Hole



The Court of Public Opinion



The Insurance Charade



When Crack Houses Become Collateral



Storm Warnings



An Uncertain Spring



Apocalypse Now



Parting the Curtain



Ratings Revisited



The Panic Begins



Catastrophe and Revenge



Time Runs Out



Bailout



Judgment Day



The Nuclear Threat


Epilogue


Notes


Index