THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A radical book that speaks out accessibly’ BONO
‘Indispensable … This is the essential handbook’ CHRISTINE LAGARDE
‘A remarkably good read’ GILLIAN TETT, Financial Times
‘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.
