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Selling America short : the SEC and market contrarians in the age of absurdity / Richard C. Sauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sauer, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stock exchanges--United States.
- Stock exchanges.
- Finance--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Finance.
- Fraud investigation--United States.
- Fraud investigation.
- United States. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- United States.
- Sauer, Richard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial 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 Amer
- Contents:
- Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity; Contents; 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 LessonChapter 15: Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down; Epiloque: Picking up the Pieces; About the Author; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612551024
- 9780470627501
- 0470627506
- 9781282551022
- 1282551027
- 9780470627495
- 0470627492
- OCLC:
- 639165815
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