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Robert "Bobby" Astor is a successful New York hedge-fund manager on the cusp of making his biggest, most daring killing ever. But everything changes when his father, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a bizarre, mystifying accident on the South Lawn of the White House while en route to delivering a terrifying secret to the president of the United States. In the wake of the incident, Astor sees the business he built start...
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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. The tsunami of cheap...