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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 78189 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
"Ugly Americans" is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world - at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known. Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank - the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy, Dean Carney, and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way, Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster ... |
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Capitalists and financiers -- Japan -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
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Americans -- Japan -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
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Hedge funds -- Japan. -- Sound recordings.
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| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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