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Octopus : Sam Israel, the secret market, and Wall Street's wildest con /

This real-life thriller tells the inside story of a hedge fund fraud and the wild search for a "secret market" beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel seemed to have it all, until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawson, Guy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Business, [2012]
Subjects:
Israel, Samuel, > 1959-
Stockbrokers > United States > Biography.
Hedge funds > United States.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
Table of Contents:
  • Trust
  • Upstairs
  • Front-running
  • Other people's money
  • The problem
  • Boy in the bubble
  • Scumbaggery
  • The Trump house
  • Adventure capital
  • Octopus
  • The shadow market
  • The big lie
  • As real as rain
  • Exploding heads
  • Deliverance
  • The snake pit
  • Yamashita's gold
  • Redemption
  • The afterlife.