GREGORY ZUCKERMAN is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, where he has been a reporter for twelve years. He pens the widely read “Heard on the Street” column and writes about hedge funds, investing, and other Wall Street topics. Zuckerman appears on CNBC twice a week to explain complex trades. He is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the credit crisis, the demise of WorldCom, and the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he is a recipient of other awards.
"Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash financial
books."
--Malcolm Gladwell
"Mr. Zuckerman is a first-rate reporter who is also able to explain
the complexities of real estate finance in layman’s terms. At
times, The Greatest Trade Ever reads like a thriller."
--The New York Times
“How Paulson and a handful of contrarian investors pulled off this
once-in-a-lifetime coup is the subject of The Greatest Trade Ever
... a fascinating and believable counter-narrative to the growing
pile of books recounting the disastrous mistakes made by many of
the supposedly smartest minds on Wall Street. It is also a
surprisingly dramatic work...In The Greatest Trade Ever, Zuckerman
skillfully shows how Paulson and a few cohorts anticipated a
disaster and figured out a way to profit.”
--BusinessWeek
"More than a cinematic narrative of how Paulson and others figured
out how to short the market. We’re also reminded of how opaque and
illiquid some financial instruments are, how little Wall Street
executives understood them, and how difficult it was for more
knowledgeable bankers to say that the subprime emperor had no
clothes."
--Bloomberg.com
"Zuckerman has a story to tell, a thread to follow, and it just
happens to turn out that by following the saga of John Paulson,
Zuckerman reveals all kinds of fascinating perspectives on complex
finance, the real estate bubble and Wall Street and Washington's
difficulties in putting the two together.”
--TheDeal.com
“A magnificent insider look at how Paulson and others profited off
of subprime’s demise, detailing both the formulation and
implementation of such a trade…Zuckerman’s work is both insightful
and gripping.”
--Marketfolly.com
"Greg Zuckerman was the first to tell the world about John
Paulson's sensational trade…He's written the definitive
account of a strange and wonderful subplot of the financial
crisis."
--Michael Lewis, bestselling author of Moneyball and Home Game
"Gregory Zuckerman takes us to Wall Street's heart of darkness,
where mushroomed a $1 trillion subprime mortgage market that only
the few, the brave, the smart dared short. The story of John
Paulson and the few colorful contrarians who made outsized bets and
outrageous profits on the subprime implosion, is at once a great
page-turner and a great illuminator of the market's crash."
--John Helyar, co-author, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR
Nabisco
"Greg Zuckerman's book is much, much more than a brilliant account
of Paulson's trade of the century; it also provides a highly
enjoyable and lucid journey through the analytical and emotional
maze that constituted the financial markets on the eve of the Great
Recession. The book is compulsory reading for those looking for
exceptional insights on the complex forces that interconnect Wall
Street, hedge funds and Main Street."
--Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Investment
Management Co. and bestselling author of When Markets Collide:
Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
"I couldn't put it down. All I can say is, WOW! What a story!
Incredibly illuminating."
--Whitney Tilson, hedge fund manager and author of More Mortgage
Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times
"A wonderful, fast-paced summary of how John Paulson, a hedge fund
manager, made billions of dollars."
--Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"The Greatest Trade Ever is aptly titled, for it is possibly
the greatest book to come out of the financial crisis of 2007 —
2008, and it’s certainly up there in the top 3."
--Bnet.com
"...a Tour de Force chronicling the rise of John Paulson from
a mediocre merger arbitrage investment manager into a financial
titan."
--Marketthoughts.com
"An astonishingly interesting story."
--David Warsh, EconomicPrincipals.com
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