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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

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Ugly Americans documents the "Wild East" of the mid-1990s, where young, brilliant, and hypercompetitive traders became "hedge fund cowboys," manipulating loopholes in an outdated and inefficient Asian financial system to rake in millions...

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Author: Ben Mezrich
Year: 2005
Price: $10.07
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Very political.

Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamor. It struck me as a real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex!!! (WHOOP WHOOP) , and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community. And I love that they ripped the shit out of the Asians. WOW!

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Great read; very entertaining

I first heard about this book on Tim's list of must read financial books.

This story, which is said to be true, is very well written. It accounts the story of a young man who did not have much of a financial career following graduation, but through contacts made his way to the other side of the world to learn and unknowningly have a role is the "raid of the asian markets". While the actual fundamentals of trading were not touched on heavily, if at all, this book gave a great insight into the lifestyle of those involved in the financial markets at the time. This book even discusses the fall of Barrings Bank and Nick Leeson's role in it. All in all this is one of my favorite books (thanks for the recommendation Tim!). I could hardly put it down!

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Terrific story

Terrific story of hedge fund boys living large in Japan and exploiting every loophole. Great lessons to be learn. Well told story. Among my favorites. A must read. If you like Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, you'll like this.

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Great Lessons

This book is very well written and is sort of scary with respect to how global financial markets operate. i had the audiobook, it was a nice surprise, entertaining and informative

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Highly Recommended. Great book.

I listened to the audiobook version and I loved it. I want Malcolm's job sitting at a computer all day trading Nikkei futures and raking in cash. Taught me some valuable lessons about companies getting added to indexes, the rules of Carney and getting out while you're ahead.

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