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Category: Wall Street story
Published: 1991
Read: 1994
Reviewed: May 2010
James Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the Wall Street Journal, tells the story of the insider trading scandals on Wall Street during the 1980s and the players who were involved (Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine). The book is a well-written and very detailed story that reads like a crime fiction book. It's funny looking back at these stories now because these were some of the biggest Wall Street scandals at the time but seem to pale compared to the losses from the scandals that came later, including: dot-com (Blodget, Meeker, etc) , Enron/Worldcom, Madoff, and the mortgage meltdown. The book is unapologetic about it's attitude about Milken being a villain. Some readers may object to this, since Milken was also responsible for the creation of some legitimate financial product innovations that have become a permanent part of the financial landscape (not to mention his philanthropic work). But this book is strictly about the insider trading scandals, and is not a broader biography of Milken.
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- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- The New Market Wizards
- Market Wizards
- Michael Sivy's Rules of Investing: How to Pick Stocks Like a Pro
- Liar's Poker
- In the Company of Giants
- The Power of Cult Branding
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- Trump: The Art of the Deal
- Monkey Business
- F.I.A.S.C.O.
- Pit Bull
- One Up On Wall Street
- Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
- Aol.com How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions
- Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
- Den of Thieves
- Investment Biker
- Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street
- Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
- The Millionaire Next Door
- Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around?
- Wizards of Wall Street
- License to Steal
- Stock Market Wizards
- Intuitive Trader
- The Winning Trader: Developing a Mental Edge for Market Success
- The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression
- The Winner Take All Society
- Trump: The Art of the Comeback
- Sure-thing Options Trading: A Money-Making Guide to the New Listed Stock and Commodity Options Markets
- Secrets of the Street: The Dark Side of Making Money
- Trading Systems: Secrets of the Masters
- Wallstreet.Com: Fat Cat Investing at the Click of a Mouse : How Andy Klein and the Internet Can Give Everyone a Seat on the Exchange
- The Future of Capitalism
- Investment Gurus
- The New Gatsbys: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Commodities Traders
- Riding the Bull: My Year in the Madness at Merrill Lynch
- The Education of a Speculator
- Warren Buffett: Master of the Market
- Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin
- The New Money Masters
- Forbes Great Minds of Business
- The Millionaire Mind
- Real People: Real Traders How People Like You are Making it in the Markets
- When Giants Stumble
- Beyond the Numbers: How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success
- Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader
- A Million A Minute
- The Four Cardinal Principles of Trading
- The Day Trader's Advantage
- Everything You've Heard About Investing Is Wrong
- The Money Masters
- NLP For Traders
- American Sucker
- Making it In Commodities
- Traders' Tales: A Chronicle of Wall Street Myths, Legends, and Outright Lies
- The Best: TradingMarkets.com Conversations With Top Traders
- Money: Who Has How Much and Why
- Charlie D.: The Story of the Legendary Bond Trader
- The Electronic Day Trader
- The Delta Phenomenon
- The Fortune Tellers
- How To Buy Stocks
- How the Stock Market Works
- Traders: The Jobs, The Products, The Market
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