Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It
An insider’s guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.
An insider’s guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.
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‘A landmark achievement’ WILL HUTTON, Observer
From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
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Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.