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

In: Bloomberg v.159

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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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Confidence game: how a hedge fund manager called Wall Street's bluff

Richard, Christine S.

Richard, Christine S.

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"Confidence Game" tells the story how hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's warnings regarding bond insurer MBIA's credit rating went unheeded as Wall Street careened toward disaster - Provided by publisher

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