Confidence game
by Christine S. Richard · first published 2010
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"Confidence Game tells the story how hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's warnings regarding bond insurer MBIA's credit rating went unheeded as Wall Street careened toward disaster"--Provided by publisher.
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on “Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?” ↗two from finance: Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff // Christine Richard Fooling Some of the People All of the Time // David Einhorn
on “Ask HN: Books about people who persevered when no one else believed in them?” ↗…the author states in the article: Mr. Ackman once made a similar bet against the bond insurer MBIA, one that reaped him and his investors a $1.1 billion return. In a book about his MBIA wager called “Confidence Game,” the reporter-turned-financial analyst Christine S. Richard chronicled how he fought with regulators for SEVEN YEARS before his prediction that MBIA stock would “spiral downward” came true. What this…
on “After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power” ↗