
Diary of a Very Bad Year
Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 22, 2010
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- Who it’s for
- An anonymous hedge fund manager offers a candid, real-time view of the financial crisis.
- Themes
- Economic crisis, Subprime mortgage collapse, Modern finance
- Genres
- Finance, Business Lives, Economics
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“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.” — James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds “A great read. . . .
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HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.” — Booklist “n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.” — Malcolm Gladwell A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.
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An anonymous hedge fund manager offers a candid, real-time view of the financial crisis.
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- A finance account that pairs serious thought with an entertaining voice
- A professional perspective spanning September 2007 to late summer 2009
Expect
- Candid reflections on the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse
- A sustained look at markets as the turmoil unfolded
Where it sits
| Business Lives | 48% |
|---|---|
| Economics | 42% |
| Finance | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Business & Economics
- Wealth Management
- Investing
- Stocks
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- Investment & Trading Strategies
- Portfolio Management
- Business Motivation
- Investing (Personal)
- Authors
- Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, n+1, Keith Gessen
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 22, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Economic crisis · Subprime mortgage collapse · Modern finance
- Reading lane
- Business & Economics