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Confidence Game [Elektronisk resurs] : How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff.

By:

Richard, Christine S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)ISBN:

9780470648278

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print:: Confidence Game : How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's BluffLOC classification:

HG4538.52 .R53 2010

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Contents:

Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Meeting; Chapter 2: The Short Seller; Chapter 3: The Question; Chapter 4: Backlash; Chapter 5: The Worst That Could Happen; Chapter 6: The Trouble with Triple-A; Chapter 7: Unanswered Questions; Chapter 8: Crimes and Cockroaches; Chapter 9: Turning the Tables; Chapter 10: Scrutiny; Chapter 11: The Black Hole; Chapter 12: The Court of Public Opinion; Chapter 13: The Insurance Charade; Chapter 14: When Crack Houses Become Collateral; Chapter 15: Storm Warnings

Chapter 16: An Uncertain SpringChapter 17: Apocalypse Now; Chapter 18: Parting the Curtain; Chapter 19: Ratings Revisited; Chapter 20: The Panic Begins; Chapter 21: Catastrophe and Revenge; Chapter 22: Time Runs Out; Chapter 23: Bailout; Chapter 24: Judgment Day; Chapter 25: The Nuclear Threat; Epilogue; Notes; Index;

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Kwara State University Library	HG4538.52 .R53 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	003779-01
Books	Kwara State University Library	HG4538.52 .R53 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	003779-02
Books	Kwara State University Library	HG4538.52 .R53 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	003779-03

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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

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