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The Greatest Trade Ever

How One Man Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion

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The Greatest Trade Ever

By: Gregory Zuckerman
Narrated by: Marc Cashman
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Autumn 2008.

The world's finances collapse, but one man makes a killing.

John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.

John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.

©2019 Gregory Zuckerman (P)2019 Penguin Audio Business Investing & Trading Professionals & Academics Stocks

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Critic reviews

"The definitive account of a sensational trade." (Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short)

"Extraordinary, excellent." (Observer)

"A must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madness." (Mail on Sunday)
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Loved hearing all that unfolded behind the scenes in the GFC, a very well written book

Great story , great performance

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Having seen the film I wondererd how good this would be , and it was great. Many insights into Wall Street and its many characters. Well explained about very well read.

A fascinating read

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I don't know where I got the idea that this would be a more heavyweight explanation of the events in The Big Short. This book needed an editor. Maybe a different writer. I switched off somewhere in the first chapter after a particularly unbearable paragraph repetitively fawning on its main character. "Paulson was clever and intelligent" did it for me. This was towards the end of a long list of why he was attractive to women. I realised that this book was not about to get better. Surprised Penguin had anything to do with it.

Poorly written

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