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Author:

Weiss, Gary (Gary R.)

Title:

Wall Street versus America : a muckraking look at the thieves, fakers, and charlatans who are ripping you off / Gary Weiss.

Publisher:

Portfolio,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xxix, 290 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Securities fraud--United States.
Securities industry--United States.
New York Stock Exchange.

Notes:

Includes index. Originally published in hardcover in 2006.

Contents:

Index. 21. Mr. Grasso's neighborhood -- 2. How to be a Wall Street prophet -- 3. The best analysts money can buy -- 4. Dialing the globe for dollars -- 5. The ghost of mutual funds past -- 6. Happiness is a warm fund manager -- 7. Mutual funds aren't bullies -- 8. Mutual fund payback time - not -- 9. It's a bird, it's a plane ... it's superinvestor! -- 10. Hedge funds : the birth of a notion -- 11. How to stuff a wild hedge fund -- 12. The money floats in - from your wallet -- 13. Bear in the woods -- 14. The answer : freed-up markets -- 15. Clueless in Microcapland -- 16. The holistic approach to corporate crime -- 17. The baloney blitzkreig -- 18. Fighting back -- 19. An outbreak of informational bacteria -- 20. The gunfight at ZiaSun Corral -- 21. Turning on the lights at Yale -- Epilogue : The second battle of Trenton -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN:

1591841631
9781591841630

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)