The Greatest Trade Ever - How One Man Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at the Wall Street Journal. He writes about business subjects like financial trades, hedge funds and private-equity firms, and about innovation and cutting-edge science. He's a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honour in business journalism. Zuckerman is the author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, and he appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business, and the BBC. He lives in New York. Klappentext Autumn 2008. As the world's financial markets collapse, one man is left standing tall. John Paulson, the softly-spoken Hedge Fund legend who predicted the crash. By betting against the housing market and the banks he earned $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year.That's the largest trading windfall in history, by far. And this is how he did it. Zusammenfassung Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. This title tells the story of the trader John Paulson who predicted the economic crash in 2008 - and made the biggest windfall in history.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Zuckerman
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.07.2010
• EAN: 9780141043159
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104315-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Investment-Geschäft, Finanzwirtschaft, Wirtschaftskrise, Investment and securities, Property and real estate