Shopping cart
Your cart empty!
Diary of a Very Bad Year
“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.” —James Surowiecki, New York Times–bestselling author
A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.
“Diary of a Very Bad Year does something few of the books written about the crisis have accomplished: It delivers an insider perspective on the events in real time, rather than dwelling on conclusions reached after the fact.” —BusinessWeek
“HFM does a good job of teaching the reader how mortgage-backed paper, money-market funds, and credit-default swaps work, while offering up juicier tidbits about the ethics and legalities of his sector.” —Time Out New York
“A highly readable refresher on the financial crisis . . . Amazingly—and largely because of the anonymity he’s granted—the nameless hedgie gives straight answers . . . the book is packed with plenty of humor.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A short, illuminating set of interviews with one savvy, articulate Wall Streeter . . . A penetrating, educational and at times harrowing play-by-play.” —Time magazine
“A great read . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.” —Booklist
More Books from Hedge Fund Manager, N+1 & Keith Gessen
Comments