Diary of a Very Bad Year: Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
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Diary of a Very Bad Year: Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.â€<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">— James Surowiecki, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Wisdom of Crowds</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">“A great read. . . . 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.â€<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">— <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Booklist </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“<em>n+1</em> is the rightful heir to <em>Partisan Review</em> and the <em>New York Review of Books</em>. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.†<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">— Malcolm Gladwell <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 <em>n+1</em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></span></span></p>