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      <title>Hedge Hogs by Barbara T. Dreyfuss</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400068395&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400068395&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400068395&quot;&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/a&gt; The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=128726&quot;&gt;Barbara T. Dreyfuss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Random House | Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities; Business &amp; Economics - Industries - Energy Industries | &lt;b&gt;$28.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-4000-6839-5 (1-4000-6839-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;For readers of &lt;i&gt;The Smartest Guys in the Room&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;When Genius Failed, &lt;/i&gt;the definitive take on Brian Hunter, John Arnold, Amaranth Advisors, and the largest hedge fund collapse in history&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely collapsed. The disaster was largely triggered by one man: thirty-two-year-old hotshot trader Brian Hunter. His high-risk bets on natural gas prices bankrupted his firm and destroyed his career, while John Arnold, his rival at competitor fund Centaurus, emerged as the highest-paid trader on Wall Street. Meticulously researched and character-driven, &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; is a riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the largest hedge fund collapse in history: a blistering tale of the recent past that explains our precarious present . . . and may predict our future.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Using emails, instant messages, court testimony, and exclusive interviews, securities analyst turned investigative reporter Barbara T. Dreyfuss charts the colliding paths of these two charismatic traders who dominated the speculative energy market. We follow Brian Hunter, the Canadian farm boy and elbows-out high school basketball star, as he achieves phenomenal early success, only to see his ambition, greed, and hubris precipitate his downfall. Set in relief is the journey of John Arnold, whose mild manner, sophisticated tastes, and low profile belied his own ferocious competitive streak. As the two clash, hundreds of millions of dollars in pension and endowment money is imperiled, with devastating public consequences.&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; takes you behind closed doors into the shadowy world of hedge funds, the unregulated wild side of finance, where over-the-top parties and lavish perks abound and billions of dollars of other people&amp;rsquo;s money are in the hands of a tiny elite. Dreyfuss traces the rise of this freewheeling industry while detailing the decades of bank, hedge fund, and commodity deregulation that turned Wall Street into a speculative casino.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; A gripping saga peppered with fast money, vivid characters, and high drama, &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; is also an important and timely cautionary tale&amp;mdash;a vivisection of a financial system jeopardized by reckless practices, watered-down regulation, and loopholes in government oversight, just waiting for the next bust.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advance praise for &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A telling insider&amp;rsquo;s story on how hedge funds are playing high-stakes poker for massive personal profits and stealing the American Dream from average families . . . This is a case study that cries out for tougher crackdowns on the derivatives game.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Hedrick Smith, author of &lt;i&gt;Who Stole the American Dream?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;The definitive take on the largest hedge fund collapse in history . . . You will not be able to put it down.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Frank Partnoy, author of &lt;i&gt;F.I.A.S.C.O. &lt;/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; Infectious Greed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Dreyfuss smartly deploys her inside knowledge. . . . [Her] lucid, perceptive tour of the high-wire culture of hedge funds highlights how vapid Wall Street&amp;rsquo;s pretense of market expertise and risk analysis really is.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Publishers Weekly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A well-crafted investigation.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;[Dreyfuss&amp;rsquo;s] work shines light on the little-known sector of unregulated energy trading in the wake of Enron.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Named One of the Top 10 Business &amp;amp; Economics Books of the Season by &lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Hedge Hogs by Barbara T. Dreyfuss</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679605010&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780679605010&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679605010&quot;&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/a&gt; The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=128726&quot;&gt;Barbara T. Dreyfuss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Random House | Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities; Business &amp; Economics - Industries - Energy Industries | &lt;b&gt;$14.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-679-60501-0 (0-679-60501-0)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;For readers of &lt;i&gt;The Smartest Guys in the Room&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;When Genius Failed, &lt;/i&gt;the definitive take on Brian Hunter, John Arnold, Amaranth Advisors, and the largest hedge fund collapse in history&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely collapsed. The disaster was largely triggered by one man: thirty-two-year-old hotshot trader Brian Hunter. His high-risk bets on natural gas prices bankrupted his firm and destroyed his career, while John Arnold, his rival at competitor fund Centaurus, emerged as the highest-paid trader on Wall Street. Meticulously researched and character-driven, &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; is a riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the largest hedge fund collapse in history: a blistering tale of the recent past that explains our precarious present . . . and may predict our future.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Using emails, instant messages, court testimony, and exclusive interviews, securities analyst turned investigative reporter Barbara T. Dreyfuss charts the colliding paths of these two charismatic traders who dominated the speculative energy market. We follow Brian Hunter, the Canadian farm boy and elbows-out high school basketball star, as he achieves phenomenal early success, only to see his ambition, greed, and hubris precipitate his downfall. Set in relief is the journey of John Arnold, whose mild manner, sophisticated tastes, and low profile belied his own ferocious competitive streak. As the two clash, hundreds of millions of dollars in pension and endowment money is imperiled, with devastating public consequences.&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; takes you behind closed doors into the shadowy world of hedge funds, the unregulated wild side of finance, where over-the-top parties and lavish perks abound and billions of dollars of other people&amp;rsquo;s money are in the hands of a tiny elite. Dreyfuss traces the rise of this freewheeling industry while detailing the decades of bank, hedge fund, and commodity deregulation that turned Wall Street into a speculative casino.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; A gripping saga peppered with fast money, vivid characters, and high drama, &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt; is also an important and timely cautionary tale&amp;mdash;a vivisection of a financial system jeopardized by reckless practices, watered-down regulation, and loopholes in government oversight, just waiting for the next bust.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advance praise for &lt;i&gt;Hedge Hogs&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A telling insider&amp;rsquo;s story on how hedge funds are playing high-stakes poker for massive personal profits and stealing the American Dream from average families . . . This is a case study that cries out for tougher crackdowns on the derivatives game.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Hedrick Smith, author of &lt;i&gt;Who Stole the American Dream?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;The definitive take on the largest hedge fund collapse in history . . . You will not be able to put it down.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Frank Partnoy, author of &lt;i&gt;F.I.A.S.C.O. &lt;/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; Infectious Greed&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Dreyfuss smartly deploys her inside knowledge. . . . [Her] lucid, perceptive tour of the high-wire culture of hedge funds highlights how vapid Wall Street&amp;rsquo;s pretense of market expertise and risk analysis really is.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Publishers Weekly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A well-crafted investigation.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;[Dreyfuss&amp;rsquo;s] work shines light on the little-known sector of unregulated energy trading in the wake of Enron.&amp;rdquo;&lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Named One of the Top 10 Business &amp;amp; Economics Books of the Season by &lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Predator Nation by Charles H. Ferguson</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952561&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307952561&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307952561&quot;&gt;Predator Nation&lt;/a&gt; Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=164026&quot;&gt;Charles H. Ferguson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 384 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Economics; Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Political Science - Economic Policy | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-95256-1 (0-307-95256-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Predator Nation&lt;/i&gt;, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes--there is no other word--committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the 2000s. And, finally, he lays out a brief plan of action for how we might take it back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Street Smarts by Jim Rogers</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307986078&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307986078&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307986078&quot;&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/a&gt; Adventures on the Road and in the Markets&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=25976&quot;&gt;Jim Rogers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 272 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Economic Conditions; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities | &lt;b&gt;$26.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-98607-8 (0-307-98607-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world -- studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up-- has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for two decades in such books as &lt;i&gt;Investment Biker&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Adventure Capitalist&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Hot Commodities&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A Bull In China&lt;/i&gt; .&amp;nbsp; In his engaging memoir &lt;i&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/i&gt;, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a na&amp;iuml;ve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding the wildly successful &amp;nbsp;Quantum Fund. Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/i&gt;, he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford --&amp;nbsp; where despite the fact that he didn&amp;rsquo;t have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup, the first of his three Guiness World Records -- to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid - 1960s, and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street.&amp;nbsp; As a result of his extraordinary success with the Quantum Fund, Rogers was able to retire at the age of thirty-seven.&amp;nbsp; Since then he has taught classes in finance at Columbia University, hosted television programs, and traveled the world seeing firsthand how revolutions in Chile affect coffee prices in Seattle, and how shortages of&amp;nbsp; copper in Africa affect electricity brownouts in Ohio.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the &amp;nbsp;world works &amp;ndash; and what trends he sees in the future.&amp;nbsp; He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century &amp;ndash; and how he and his wife and two daughters moved to Singapore to prepare his family for the coming changes..&amp;nbsp; He discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society.&amp;nbsp; The age of Wall Street, Rogers claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America&amp;rsquo;s growth, is over.&amp;nbsp; Tomorrow&amp;rsquo;s economy will be driven by those who make things &amp;ndash; food, energy, goods and consumables.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, Jim Rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-02-05T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Street Smarts by Jim Rogers</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307986092&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307986092&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307986092&quot;&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/a&gt; Adventures on the Road and in the Markets&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=25976&quot;&gt;Jim Rogers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 272 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Economic Conditions; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities | &lt;b&gt;$13.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-98609-2 (0-307-98609-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world -- studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up-- has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for two decades in such books as &lt;i&gt;Investment Biker&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Adventure Capitalist&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Hot Commodities&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A Bull In China&lt;/i&gt; .&amp;nbsp; In his engaging memoir &lt;i&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/i&gt;, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a na&amp;iuml;ve kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding the wildly successful &amp;nbsp;Quantum Fund. Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Street Smarts&lt;/i&gt;, he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford --&amp;nbsp; where despite the fact that he didn&amp;rsquo;t have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup, the first of his three Guiness World Records -- to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid - 1960s, and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street.&amp;nbsp; As a result of his extraordinary success with the Quantum Fund, Rogers was able to retire at the age of thirty-seven.&amp;nbsp; Since then he has taught classes in finance at Columbia University, hosted television programs, and traveled the world seeing firsthand how revolutions in Chile affect coffee prices in Seattle, and how shortages of&amp;nbsp; copper in Africa affect electricity brownouts in Ohio.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the &amp;nbsp;world works &amp;ndash; and what trends he sees in the future.&amp;nbsp; He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century &amp;ndash; and how he and his wife and two daughters moved to Singapore to prepare his family for the coming changes..&amp;nbsp; He discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society.&amp;nbsp; The age of Wall Street, Rogers claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America&amp;rsquo;s growth, is over.&amp;nbsp; Tomorrow&amp;rsquo;s economy will be driven by those who make things &amp;ndash; food, energy, goods and consumables.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, Jim Rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-02-05T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Street Smarts by Michael Bybee</title>
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      <updated>2013-02-05T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <author>
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      <updated>2012-09-25T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <author>
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      <updated>2012-09-25T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <updated>2012-09-25T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Predator Nation by Charles H. Ferguson</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2012-05-22T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Predator Nation by Charles H. Ferguson</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <updated>2012-05-22T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307969835&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307969835&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307969835&quot;&gt;Predator Nation&lt;/a&gt; Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=164026&quot;&gt;Charles H. Ferguson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=100466&quot;&gt;Rob Shapiro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Business &amp; Economics - Economics; Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Political Science - Economic Policy | &lt;b&gt;$20.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-96983-5 (0-307-96983-5)&lt;p&gt;Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inside Job&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; recent administrations, that prepared the predators&amp;rsquo; path to conquest.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Finance has become America&amp;rsquo;s dominant industry, while manufacturing, even for high technology industries, has nearly disappeared.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The financial sector has become increasingly criminalized, with the widespread fraud that caused the housing bubble going completely unpunished.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Federal tax collections as a share of GDP are at their lowest level in sixty years, with the wealthy and highly profitable corporations enjoying the greatest tax reductions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Most shockingly, the United States, so long the beacon of opportunity for the ambitious poor, has become one of the world&amp;rsquo;s most unequal and unfair societies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; If you&amp;rsquo;re smart and a hard worker, but your parents aren&amp;rsquo;t rich, you&amp;rsquo;re now better off being born in Munich, Germany or in Singapore than in Cleveland, Ohio or New York.&lt;br&gt; This radical shift did not happen by accident.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Ferguson shows how, since the Reagan administration in the 1980s, both major political parties have become captives of the moneyed elite.&amp;nbsp; It was the Clinton administration that dismantled the regulatory controls that protected the average citizen from avaricious financiers.&amp;nbsp; It was the Bush team that destroyed the federal revenue base with its grotesquely skewed tax cuts for the rich. And it is the Obama White House that has allowed financial criminals to continue to operate unchecked, even after supposed &amp;ldquo;reforms&amp;rdquo; installed after the collapse of 2008. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Predator Nation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers became mere courtiers to the elite.&amp;nbsp; Based on many newly released court filings, it details the extent of the crimes&amp;mdash;there is no other word&amp;mdash;committed in the frenzied chase for wealth that caused the financial crisis.&amp;nbsp; And, finally, it lays out a plan of action for how we might take back our country and the American dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-05-22T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>King of Capital by John E. Morris</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886026&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307886026&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307886026&quot;&gt;King of Capital&lt;/a&gt; The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=91027&quot;&gt;David Carey&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=125486&quot;&gt;John E. Morris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 400 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Corporate Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Free Enterprise | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-88602-6 (0-307-88602-6)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . . &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street. David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and &amp;lsquo;barbarians at the gate&amp;rsquo; into disciplined, risk-conscious investors. &lt;br&gt; The financial establishment&amp;mdash;banks and investment bankers such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley&amp;mdash;were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.&lt;br&gt; Blackstone is now ready to break out once again since it is sitting on billions of dollars&lt;br&gt; that can be invested at a time when the market is starved for capital.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The story of a financial revolution&amp;mdash;the greatest untold success story on Wall Street: &lt;/b&gt;Not only have Blackstone and a small coterie of competitors wrested control of corporations around the globe, but they have emerged as a major force on Wall Street, challenging the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for dominance.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Great human interest story: &lt;/b&gt;How Blackstone went from two guys and a secretary to being one of Wall Street&amp;rsquo;s most powerful institutions, far outgrowing its much older rival KKR; and how Steve Schwarzman, with a pay packet one year of $398 million and $684 million from the Blackstone IPO, came to epitomize the spectacular new financial fortunes amassed in the 2000s.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Controversial: &lt;/b&gt;Analyzes the controversies surrounding Blackstone and whether it and other private equity firms suck the lifeblood out of companies to enrich themselves&amp;mdash;or whether they are a force that helps make the companies they own stronger and thereby better competitors.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The story by two insiders with access: &lt;/b&gt;Insightful and hard-hitting, filled with never-before-revealed details about the workings of a heretofore secretive company that was the personal fiefdom of Schwarzman and Peter Peterson.&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Forward-looking: &lt;/b&gt;How Blackstone and private equity will drive the economy and provide a model for how financing will work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-02-07T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Big Secret for the Small Investor by Joel Greenblatt</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307720788&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307720788&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307720788&quot;&gt;The Big Secret for the Small Investor&lt;/a&gt; A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=80350&quot;&gt;Joel Greenblatt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 224 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Personal Finance - Investing; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities; Business &amp; Economics - Finance | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-72078-8 (0-307-72078-0)&lt;p&gt;When it comes to investing in the stock market,&amp;nbsp; investors have plenty of options:&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;1.&amp;nbsp; They can do it themselves.&amp;nbsp; Trillions of dollars are invested this way.&lt;br&gt;(Of course, the only problem here is that most people have no idea how to analyze and choose individual stocks.&amp;nbsp; Well, not really the only problem.&amp;nbsp; Most investors have no idea how to construct a stock portfolio, most have no idea when to buy and sell, and most have no idea &lt;i&gt;how much&lt;/i&gt; to invest in the first place.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2.&amp;nbsp; They can give it to professionals to invest.&amp;nbsp; Trillions of dollars are invested this way.&lt;br&gt;(Unfortunately&amp;nbsp; most professionals actually underperform&amp;nbsp; the market averages over time.&amp;nbsp; In fact,it may be even harder to pick good professional managers than it is to pick good individual stocks.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3.&amp;nbsp; They can invest in traditional index funds.&amp;nbsp; Trillions of dollars are also invested this way.(The problem is that investing this way is seriously flawed--and almost a guarantee of subpar investment returns over time.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4.&amp;nbsp; They can read &lt;i&gt;The Big Secret for the Small Investor&lt;/i&gt; and&amp;nbsp; do something else.&amp;nbsp; Not much is invested this way.&amp;nbsp; Yet...&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Let top hedge fund manager, Columbia business school professor, former &lt;i&gt;Fortune 500&lt;/i&gt; chairman and &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author, Joel Greenblatt, take you on a journey that will reveal the &lt;i&gt;Big Secret&lt;/i&gt; for both individual and professional investors.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Based on path-breaking new research, find out how anyone can beat the market, the index funds and the experts by following a new approach that relies on the principles of value investing, common sense and quantitative discipline.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Along the way, learn where &quot;value&quot; comes from, how markets work, and what really happens on Wall Street.&amp;nbsp; By journey's end, small investors (and even not-so-small investors) will have found their way to some excellent new investment choices.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2011-04-12T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>King of Capital by John E. Morris</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2010-10-05T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Suze Orman's Action Plan by Suze Orman</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679604174&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780679604174&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679604174&quot;&gt;Suze Orman's Action Plan&lt;/a&gt; New Rules for New Times&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=22853&quot;&gt;Suze Orman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Spiegel &amp; Grau | Business &amp; Economics - Finance; Business &amp; Economics - Workplace Culture; Business &amp; Economics - Investments &amp; Securities | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-679-60417-4 (0-679-60417-0)&lt;p&gt;Times have changed and the rules have changed, but financial security is still the goal. Do you know how to get there?&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;There is a new reality out there&amp;mdash;a new normal. What was once certain&amp;mdash;that you would be able to retire comfortably, that you would pay for your kids&amp;rsquo; education, that your home would appreciate in value&amp;mdash;is no longer a sure thing. So much has changed on the financial landscape that it&amp;rsquo;s hard to know which moves are the right ones to make. Suze Orman&amp;rsquo;s million-copy bestselling financial action plan&amp;mdash;fully revised and updated for 2010 and beyond&amp;mdash;will show you the way.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;NEW TIMES CALL FOR NEW RULES&amp;mdash;AND THIS IS WHAT SUZE ORMAN&amp;rsquo;S ACTION PLAN&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;DELIVERS: &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; up-to-date information on new legislation that could affect how you will achieve your financial goals&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; an explanation of new FICO practices, and a new strategy for dealing with credit card debt&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; sound advice about rebuidling your retirement plan, and what to do if you&amp;rsquo;re already retired&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; guidance on how to live within your means, and strategies to keep you on the path to achieving your goals in this new age of financial honesty&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;PLUS AN ALL-NEW CHAPTER ON KIDS AND MONEY&amp;mdash;how to give your kids a solid financial education, no matter their age!&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Download Suze Orman&amp;rsquo;s free Money Tool iPhone applicaton in the iTunes store.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2010-03-23T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>House of Cards by William D. Cohan</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2010-02-09T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>99 Ways to Increase Your Income by Frank Martin</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
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      <updated>2009-07-21T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>House of Cards by William D. Cohan</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385528269&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385528269&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385528269&quot;&gt;House of Cards&lt;/a&gt; A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=73897&quot;&gt;William D. Cohan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 480 pages | Doubleday | Business &amp; Economics - Corporate History; Business &amp; Economics - Finance | &lt;b&gt;$27.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-52826-9 (0-385-52826-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns &amp;amp; Co., the nation&amp;#8217;s fifth-largest investment bank: &amp;#8220;In my book, they are insolvent.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear Stearns was about to announce profits of $115 million for the first quarter of 2008, had $17.3 billion in cash on hand, and, as the company incessantly boasted, had been a colossally profitable enterprise in the eighty-five years since its founding.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ten days later, Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How this happened &amp;#8211; and why &amp;#8211; is the subject of William D. Cohan&amp;#8217;s superb and shocking narrative that chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Bear Stearns serves as the Rosetta Stone to explain how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cohan&amp;#8217;s minute-by-minute account of those ten days in March makes for breathless reading, as the bankers at Bear Stearns struggled to contain the cascading series of events that would doom the firm, and as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began to realize the dire consequences for the world economy should the company go bankrupt. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But HOUSE OF CARDS does more than recount the incredible panic of the first stages of the financial meltdown. William D. Cohan beautifully demonstrates&lt;i&gt; why&lt;/i&gt; the seemingly invincible Wall Street money machine came crashing down. He chronicles the swashbuckling corporate culture of Bear Stearns, the strangely crucial role competitive bridge played in the company&amp;#8217;s fortunes, the brutal internecine battles for power, and the deadly combination of greed and inattention that helps to explain why the company&amp;#8217;s leaders ignored the danger lurking in Bear&amp;#8217;s huge positions in mortgage-backed securities.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The author deftly portrays larger-than-life personalities like Ace Greenberg, Bear Stearns&amp;#8217; miserly, take-no-prisoners chairman whose memos about re-using paper clips were legendary throughout Wall Street; his profane, colorful rival and eventual heir Jimmy Cayne, whose world-champion-level bridge skills were a lever in his corporate rise and became a symbol of the reasons for the firm&amp;#8217;s demise; and Jamie Dimon, the blunt-talking CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who won the astonishing endgame of the saga (the Bear Stearns headquarters alone were worth more than JP Morgan paid for the whole company). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cohan&amp;#8217;s explanation of seemingly arcane subjects like credit default swaps and fixed- income securities is masterful and crystal clear, but it is the high-end dish and powerful narrative drive that makes HOUSE OF CARDS an irresistible read on a par with classics such as LIAR&amp;#8217;S POKER and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made THE LAST TYCOONS a bestseller and a prize-winner, HOUSE OF CARDS is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>House of Cards by William D. Cohan</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385530460&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385530460&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385530460&quot;&gt;House of Cards&lt;/a&gt; A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=73897&quot;&gt;William D. Cohan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Anchor | Business &amp; Economics - Corporate History; Business &amp; Economics - Finance | &lt;b&gt;$14.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-53046-0 (0-385-53046-3)&lt;p&gt;A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world&amp;rsquo;s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The effects would be felt nationwide, as the country suddenly found itself in the grip of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression. William Cohan exposes the corporate arrogance, power struggles, and deadly combination of greed and inattention, which led to the collapse of not only Bear Stearns but the very foundations of Wall Street.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Trade Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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