Selling America Short is a chronicle of crooked companies, colorful but clear-eyed skeptics whose warnings went unheeded, and overmatched enforcers, all seen through the eyes of personal experience. It sheds a bright light on some of the darkest corners of the financial world and details the damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets.
Providing a unique look at how our capital markets work and, quite often, don’t, Selling America Short skillfully reveals the tragic missteps of the American financial behemoth as it marches boldly from one crisis to another. Along the way, this insightful and often wryly humorous guide also:
- Takes you on a journey through a rogue’s gallery of bent executives, professional fraud enablers, and blinkered technocrats
- Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market of critical information
- Highlights the inner workings of the agencies that attempt to control our financial markets
- Perceptively describes the illusory asset valuations, myopic business strategies, and feckless public policies that led to the recent crack-up of our financial system
- And much more
Selling America Short is a chronicle of crooked companies, colorful but clear-eyed skeptics whose warnings went unheeded, and overmatched enforcers, all seen through the eyes of personal experience. It sheds a bright light on some of the darkest corners of the financial world and details the damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets.
Providing a unique look at how our capital markets work and, quite often, don’t, Selling America Short skillfully reveals the tragic missteps of the American financial behemoth as it marches boldly from one crisis to another. Along the way, this insightful and often wryly humorous guide also:
- Takes you on a journey through a rogue’s gallery of bent executives, professional fraud enablers, and blinkered technocrats
- Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market of critical information
- Highlights the inner workings of the agencies that attempt to control our financial markets
- Perceptively describes the illusory asset valuations, myopic business strategies, and feckless public policies that led to the recent crack-up of our financial system
- And much more
Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity
336
Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity
336
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780470627501 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 03/04/2010 |
| Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| File size: | 621 KB |