Keeps You Hooked

This book is very well written and ultimately makes you wonder: How much money in the global financial market is criminally funded?

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21 February 2010

AscentOfCapital

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If your looking for education this is not the book for you, but if you're a Wall Street market addict read this book! I got sucked in and finished this book in a weekend.

This book goes into the life of an ordinary guy who ended up a "cowboy" in the wild east and all that came with it.

Worth the read.

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21 December 2009

Boardryder

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Great Story

I love books that you start to read, and can't put down. This was one of those books. The book isn't very long, so you can read it in a few days. I appreciated the way that the author tied the two cultures together, and you could see how being an american in Japan would be an experience. I also liked the way he described how the markets worked a bit differently in Japan. The end of the book really makes Ugly Americans worth the time and money spent.

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06 February 2010

Mdwagner

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Most Entertaining

This could be the most entertaining finance/business book ever written...now its supposed to be based on a true story, but who cares what exactly is true and what is not. While teaching readers the kind of trading strategies hedge funds use (and the trade at the end if a whopper of a lesson), we also learn about how crazy it is for Americans to live and do business in Japan....absolute great and entertaining book, I literally couldn't put it down and it only took me a day or two to finish

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05 December 2009

Tim

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Entertaining! Nikkei

I downloaded the audiobook and listened to this on overnight flight to Berlin in April. In addition to being entertaining I learned a bit about Japanese culture and the arbitrage that went on during the time period between Tokyo and Osaka markets. The insider mentality to the market functions is relevant today as the Nikkei lags other world markets largely in part due to dilution from all investment banking activity. All the references to the yakuza made me wonder what percentage of assets worldwide is tied to crime. Who knows if all of the story is true, the parts about Nick Leeson and Barings Bank seem at least plausible -- in the end I could just be another gaijin reader.

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06 December 2009

Geckler

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