Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehoggingrepresents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with...
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Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehoggingrepresents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world. Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world
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HEDGE HOGGING; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: The Triangle Investment Club Dinner; Chapter 2: The New Hedgehogs May Have Been Golden Boys, but They Still Bleed Red; Chapter 3: Short-Selling Oil; Chapter 4: Short Selling Is Not for Sissies; Chapter 5: The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund; Chapter 6: The Roadshow Grind; Chapter 7: The Run-Up and Haunted by Remembrances and Doubt; Chapter 8: Hedgehogs Come in All Sizes and Shapes; Chapter 9: The Violence of Secular Market Cycles; Chapter 10: The Battle for Investment Survival; Chapter 11: From One Generation to Another
Chapter 12: Nature's Mysticism and Groupthink StinksChapter 13: The Internet Bubble; Chapter 14: Great Investment Managers Are Intense, Disciplined Maniacs; Chapter 15: You're Only as Beloved as Your Most Recent Performance; Chapter 16: Once You Have a Fortune, How Can You Hang On to It?; Chapter 17: Three Investment Religions; Chapter 18: The Trouble with Being Big; Chapter 19: Bubbles and the True Believer; Chapter 20: Divine Intervention, or Inside Information?; Chapter 21: John Maynard Keynes; CONCLUSION; RECOMMENDED READ
