| Title | : | Diary of a Very Bad Year |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Hedge Fund Manager, N+1 & Keith Gessen |
| Release | : | 2010-06-08 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Economics, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Personal Finance, Investing, Finance |
| Size | : | 1181160 |
| “Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.” —James Surowiecki, New York Times–bestselling author A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1. “Diary of a Very Bad Year does something few of the books written about the crisis have accomplished: It delivers an insider perspective on the events in real time, rather than dwelling on conclusions reached after the fact.” —BusinessWeek “HFM does a good job of teaching the reader how mortgage-backed paper, money-market funds, and credit-default swaps work, while offering up juicier tidbits about the ethics and legalities of his sector.” —Time Out New York “A highly readable refresher on the financial crisis . . . Amazingly—and largely because of the anonymity he’s granted—the nameless hedgie gives straight answers . . . the book is packed with plenty of humor.” —The Wall Street Journal “A short, illuminating set of interviews with one savvy, articulate Wall Streeter . . . A penetrating, educational and at times harrowing play-by-play.” —Time magazine “A great read . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.” —Booklist |
