Monday, October 20, 2008

Behind the Housing Crash Reminder!

A friendly reminder to buy the book if you haven't already.

Beside which it entails stories of Jennifer Aniston, IRS investigations, a heroic capitalist underdog hero fighting the forever blurring forces of nepotism and socialism and a plot that is continually unfolding. How can you NOT buy the book?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cap,

Wanted to see what you thought of this

"The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.

Andrew Lahde's $80m Los Angeles-based firm Lahde Capital Management in Los Angeles made a huge return last year by betting against subprime mortgages.

Yesterday the 37-year-old told his clients that he had hated the business and had only been in it for the money. And after declaring he would no longer manage money for other people, because he had enough of his own, Lahde said that instead he intended to repair his stress-damaged health; he made it clear he would not miss the financial world.

"The low-hanging fruit, ie idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking," he wrote. "These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government," he said.

"All of this behaviour supporting the aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America." "

Sort of fits with what you were saying...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/18/banking-useconomy

Unknown said...

Just letting you know that I ordered the book last Friday. For some reason though they said they can't ship it out until tomorrow at the earliest. Might it already on back order?

So have you passed Pelosi's book sales yet?

Looking foward to reading it.