Selling America Short (eBook)
336 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-62749-5 (ISBN)
system and the agencies who attempt to control it
During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer
opened and supervised some of its most notable financial
cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and
returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors.
While a partner at a major law firm and, later, a hedge fund
manager, he saw firsthand the follies and failures of our system.
Now, in Selling America Short, he shares his extraordinary
experiences with you.
Selling America Short is a gripping chronicle of crooked
companies, financial philanderers and hapless enforcers told
through the eyes of personal experience. Page by page, it shows the
damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience
common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets.
* Sheds light on the inner workings of our financial system
* Takes you on a fascinating journey of a rogue's gallery of
crooked executives, professional fraud enablers, and squirrelly
technocrats
* Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of
public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market
of critical information
With the capital markets in turmoil, people are fascinated with
what is happening on Wall Street. This book provides a unique look
at the forces and events that led directly to financial tragedy and
continue to wreak havoc.
RICHARD C. SAUER has been, among other things, an Assistant Director with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a partner in an international law firm, and an analyst with a Northern California hedge fund. In his dozen years as an SEC attorney and administrator, he was responsible for some of the agency's most memorable financial fraud cases. Sauer's articles on legal and financial topics have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron's. He is also a published novelist and holds a doctorate in law (SJD) from Harvard Law School. Sauer lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Eileen Killory.
Prologue.
Chapter 1 Rude Awakenings.
Chapter 2 The SEC Steps Out.
Chapter 3 Short People.
Chapter 4 Belgian Waffles.
Chapter 5 AremisSoft and the Deemster from Hell.
Chapter 6 Taking Out the Eurotrash.
Chapter 7 In the Shadow of Enron.
Chapter 8 The Easter Bunny Cometh.
Chapter 9 Mired in Muck.
Chapter 10 Our Tax Dollars at Work.
Chapter 11 Warming the Bench.
Chapter 12 The Overstock Flame Wars.
Chapter 13 The Bird in the Bush.
Chapter 14 The Collapse of the American Financial Sector in One
Easy Lesson.
Chapter 15 Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down.
Epilogue Picking up the Pieces.
About the Author.
Index.
"Readers with a taste for skulduggery won't be
disappointed. Sauer's war stories slither through letterbox
companies, a suspicious Bulgarian government contract and documents
dumped onto a roadside garbage heap."
-- James Pressley, Bloomberg News, May 2010
"Sauer's informed (he was an SEC attorney before he
joined a hedge fund) and detailed set of stories will make you
sick, but they'll also make you appreciate what a no-win
position the Feds occupy in America's--and the
world's--byzantine financial regulatory schema, not to
mention how the bad behavior of Goldman Sachs took down a hedge
fund on the cusp of making a bundle for its investors thanks to
prescient bets on a financial crisis. ... Get a hold of it and
start reading."
-- Jeff Matthews,
jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com, May 2010
"A must read for everyone who wants to know something
about the SEC, short sellers and fraud."
--Seeking Alpha, October 2010
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2010 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Finance & Investments • Finance & Investments Special Topics • Finanz- u. Anlagewesen • Finanzwesen • Spezialthemen Finanz- u. Anlagewesen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-62749-2 / 0470627492 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-62749-5 / 9780470627495 |
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