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Wall Street Versus America |
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A Muckraking Look at the Thieves, Fakers, and Charlatans Who Are Ripping You Off
Gary Weiss - Author
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| eBook: eReader | ISBN 9781429535076 | 29 May 2007 | Portfolio |
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Gary Weiss, one of the business world’s most dogged investigative reporters, has written the definitive book about the dark side of Wall Street—not just a few bad apples, but the whole rotten barrel.
This is the outrageous, riveting, darkly funny story of what really happens in every corner of the financial system: from Internet tip sites and boiler rooms, to fee-happy mutual funds and hedge funds, to the bluest of blue-chip securities firms. With vivid anecdotes and character studies, Wall Street Versus America will show you how investors are consistently victimized—while sleepy regulators, biased arbitrators, and the media all look the other way.
You’ll learn, for instance, how respectable institutions such as Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley push the ethical envelope, and how Washington, under both Democrats and Republicans, simply has not kept up with innovations in Wall Street greed.
Witty, readable, and hunts big game. (New York Post)
With lethal intent, Weiss’s new book unleashes a nuclear blast across the spectrum of financial finagling. (Barron’s)
Gary Weiss has written a book that strips away the gloss and glamour of the stock world and reveals the sometimes sordid details.…Wall Street Versus America is erudite and savagely funny. (Houston Chronicle)
His arguments are hotheaded — as in, ‘by the way, be sure to stick the word “allegedly” into every sentence of the preceding paragraph’— but highly illuminating. (The New York Times)
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MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
Interred with Their Bones
Jennifer Lee Carrell
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