The Greatest Trade Ever
How One Man Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion
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Marc Cashman
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Autumn 2008.
The world's finances collapse, but one man makes a killing.
John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.
John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.
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Critic reviews
"The definitive account of a sensational trade." (Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short)
"Extraordinary, excellent." (Observer)
"A must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madness." (Mail on Sunday)
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- Mr. S. Mehta
- 20-05-21
Great story , great performance
Loved hearing all that unfolded behind the scenes in the GFC, a very well written book
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- Brian B.
- 08-04-21
A fascinating read
Having seen the film I wondererd how good this would be , and it was great. Many insights into Wall Street and its many characters. Well explained about very well read.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 26-10-23
Poorly written
I don't know where I got the idea that this would be a more heavyweight explanation of the events in The Big Short. This book needed an editor. Maybe a different writer. I switched off somewhere in the first chapter after a particularly unbearable paragraph repetitively fawning on its main character. "Paulson was clever and intelligent" did it for me. This was towards the end of a long list of why he was attractive to women. I realised that this book was not about to get better. Surprised Penguin had anything to do with it.
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