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·出版社：Portfolio Hardcover
·页码：320 页码
·出版日：2006年
·ISBN：9781591840947
·条码：9781591840947
·装帧：精装
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A shocking appraisal that shows how Wall Street is intrinsically corrupt—and what individual investors can do to protect themselves
For several years high-profile corporate wrongdoers have been vilified by the media. Yet the problem, according to Gary Weiss, is not just a few isolated instances of malfeasance. The problem is in the very fabric of Wall Street and its practices that enable and even encourage corruption—practices that are so pervasive and so difficult to combat that they are in effect perfect crimes, with the small investor left holding the bag.In this blistering report from the front, Weiss describes how the ethos of Mafia chophouses, boiler rooms, and penny stock peddlers now permeates all of Wall Street. Protected from investor lawsuits by laughably corrupt arbitration systems, Wall Street firms are free to fleece unsuspecting clients with little or no risk. But as this empowering book shows, ordinary investors can fight back and come out on top—if they learn to recognize warning signs, filter media chatter, and spot looming corporate meltdowns in advance.Prepare to be surprised, get angry, and then get even.Wall Street Versus Americais a wild ride you can’t afford to miss.
作者简介
Gary Weissis an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly withBusiness Weekmagazine, who has been reporting on Wall Street for two decades. He is the author ofBorn to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street.
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From Publishers Weekly
Never mind Enron—corruption, fraud and towering incompetence are Wall Street's daily bread and butter, insists this livelyj'accuse. Ex-BusinessWeekreporter Weiss (Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street) details the myriad ways the financial industry preys on small investors. Scraping the bottom are the boiler-room operators who peddle worthless microcap stocks over the phone and the "paid research" outfits hired by companies to tout their stocks under the guise of independent analysis. But the author finds plenty of chicanery at the pinnacle of Wall Street probity, blue-chip mutual funds, which, he contends, charge exorbitant fees and pay kickbacks to brokers to steer customers their way—while yielding a markedly worse return than market indexes. He also pillories the industry's toothless watchdogs—the New York Stock Exchange, a business media addicted to hype and puffery, and a do-nothing Securities and Exchange Commission. (Weiss's savaging of oft-lionized ex-SEC chairman Arthur Levitt is particularly vicious and funny.) The author sometimes meanders, and his cures for the rot—empowered short-selling and investor grousing on the Internet—seem pretty feeble. But Weiss's wise-guy attitude and muckraking chops make for a devastating broadside.(Apr. 6)
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FromBooklist
If you're like half of America, and you own stocks, either directly or through mutual funds, IRAs, or 401(k)s, you may not want to hear what Weiss has to say about the industry--but you'd better read it anyway, for your own good. Weiss, an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly withBusiness Week, refuses to toe the party line. He describes practices we thought were confined to the fringe dark side of The Street, such as boiler room fraud; overpaid, uncaring fund managers; ineffectual SEC regulations; and Wild West-style hedge funds. The wall that is supposed to separate CEOs, analysts, underwriters, and the media has long disappeared, according to Weiss, as these forces cozy up to form a coalition designed to separate you from your money. If this all sounds too tough to beat, Weiss describes a way to fight back--for instance, place funds in an unmanaged index fund and beat more than half the managers "playing" the market right off the bat. Traders will enjoy the behind-the-scenes look at the war between short sellers and just about everybody else.David Siegfried
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New York Post
Witty, readable, and hunts big game.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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Witty, readable, and hunts big game. (New York Post)
With lethal intent, Weiss’s new book unleashes a nuclear blast across the spectrum of financial finagling. (Barron’s)
Gary Weiss has written a book that strips away the gloss and glamour of the stock world and reveals the sometimes sordid details.…Wall Street Versus Americais erudite and savagely funny. (Houston Chronicle)
His arguments are hotheaded — as in, ‘by the way, be sure to stick the word “allegedly” into every sentence of the preceding paragraph’— but highly illuminating. (The New York Times)--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Houston Chronicle
Gary Weiss has written a book that strips away the gloss and glamour of the stock world and reveals the sometimes sordid details.…Wall Street Versus Americais erudite and savagely funny.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
The New York Times
His arguments are hotheaded — as in, ‘by the way, be sure to stick the word "allegedly" into every sentence of the preceding paragraph’— but highly illuminating.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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