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The First Book from n+1—an Essential Chronicle of Our Financial Crisis
HFM: Where are you going to buy protection on the U.S. government's credit? I mean, if the U.S. defaults, what bank is going to be able to make good on that contract? Who are you going to buy that contract from, the Martians?
n+1: When does this begin to feel like less of a cyclical thing, like the weather, and more of a permanent, end-of-the-world kind of thing?
HFM: When you see me selling apples out on the street, that's when you should go stock up on guns and ammunition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'd agree with the previous reviewer that the book isn't going to teach finance professionals very much. But I think it's very interesting for non-finance types to get a better understanding of what finance people are/were thinking during the credit crisis. Now the number of non-finance types who are genuinely trying to get that understanding may be quite limited, but these are the people who would really benefit from reading it IMO.
Full disclosure - I work in finance and enjoyed the book, if only because it was nice to read some analysis that I generally agreed with, from someone who actually understands what he's talking about. And because it made me feel that I haven't just been going slowly insane for the last 3 years...
Full disclosure - I work in finance and enjoyed the book, if only because it was nice to read some analysis that I generally agreed with, from someone who actually understands what he's talking about. And because it made me feel that I haven't just been going slowly insane for the last 3 years...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read hype on this- I was quite keen to read it so snapped it up here- in the end it turned out to be poor decision and waste of my time- for anyone working in Finance I would not recommend this as it has little in way of meaningful insights and has lot of very very basic back and forth - maybe more readable for a non-finance person
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Very possibly an investing classic, to be read 100 years from now
25 July 2010
Format:Paperback
This book far surpasses the expectations set by its simple premise -- a series of interviews of an unnamed hedge fund manager who specialized in trading emerging market debt through the financial crisis of 2008. No secrets are revealed about the inner workings of the global financial system, and the factual content of the book can be found elsewhere. This book is great not because it explains a credit crunch, or how to trade bonds or manage portfolio risk (it doesn't even attempt to do these latter things), but because it provides an intelligent, funny, highly opinionated synthesis of far-reaching finance, economics, and even philosophy. Many readers will disagree with points made by the anonymous hedge fund manager who holds court in these pages, but I think any reader would benefit from the internal dialog with him we have while reading.
The end of the book, after the crisis is over, is not as compelling as the first part of the text. However, even the first 100 pages more than justifies the cost of the book and the time spent reading it.
The end of the book, after the crisis is over, is not as compelling as the first part of the text. However, even the first 100 pages more than justifies the cost of the book and the time spent reading it.
29 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Great for a quick read
3 July 2010
Format:Paperback
I don't follow the news very much, just episodes of Daily Show that let me know the general state of the world. So I knew next to nothing about the causes and implications of the financial meltdown or the rationale of the bailout. I picked this book up because I liked the interview format and thought I could learn a little. It turned out to be an amazing read: it was fairly easy to understand, both the interviewer and interviewee were likable, and it gave me a lot of insight into the financial world. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about what happened with the economy, but find other, denser books too daunting.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Great book. Easy Read.
7 July 2010
Format:Paperback
This was a great book. Very informative from the perspective of a seemingly objective financial expert. It's a long interview conducted over a few years, so it makes it very easy to read. With the amount of info conveyed, as a non-finance guy, I did not find it to be overwhelmingly academic at all, even though I learned a tremendous amount of new information.
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