Selling America Short: The SEC and Market Contrarians in the Age of Absurdity

Author:   Richard C. Sauer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:  

9780470582114


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 May 2010
Format:   Hardback
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An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors. While a partner at a major law firm and, later, a hedge fund manager, he saw firsthand the follies and failures of our system. Now, in Selling America Short, he shares his extraordinary experiences with you. Selling America Short is a gripping chronicle of crooked companies, financial philanderers and hapless enforcers told through the eyes of personal experience. Page by page, it shows the damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets. * Sheds light on the inner workings of our financial system * Takes you on a fascinating journey of a rogue's gallery of crooked executives, professional fraud enablers, and squirrelly technocrats * Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market of critical information With the capital markets in turmoil, people are fascinated with what is happening on Wall Street. This book provides a unique look at the forces and events that led directly to financial tragedy and continue to wreak havoc.

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Author:   Richard C. Sauer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9780470582114


ISBN 10:   0470582111
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   18 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Readers with a taste for skulduggery won't be disappointed. Sauer's war stories slither through letterbox companies, a suspicious Bulgarian government contract and documents dumped onto a roadside garbage heap. - James Pressley, Bloomberg News, May 2010 Sauer's informed (he was an SEC attorney before he joined a hedge fund) and detailed set of stories will make you sick, but they'll also make you appreciate what a no-win position the Feds occupy in America's-and the world's-byzantine financial regulatory schema, not to mention how the bad behavior of Goldman Sachs took down a hedge fund on the cusp of making a bundle for its investors thanks to prescient bets on a financial crisis. ... Get a hold of it and start reading. - Jeff Matthews, jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com, May 2010


Readers with a taste for skulduggery won't be disappointed. Sauer's war stories slither through letterbox companies, a suspicious Bulgarian government contract and documents dumped onto a roadside garbage heap. - James Pressley , Bloomberg News, May 2010 Sauer's informed (he was an SEC attorney before he joined a hedge fund) and detailed set of stories will make you sick, but they'll also make you appreciate what a no-win position the Feds occupy in America's-and the world's-byzantine financial regulatory schema, not to mention how the bad behavior of Goldman Sachs took down a hedge fund on the cusp of making a bundle for its investors thanks to prescient bets on a financial crisis. ... Get a hold of it and start reading. - Jeff Matthews , jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com, May 2010 A must read for everyone who wants to know something about the SEC, short sellers and fraud. - Seeking Alpha , October 2010


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RICHARD C. SAUER has been, among other things, an Assistant Director with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a partner in an international law firm, and an analyst with a Northern California hedge fund. In his dozen years as an SEC attorney and administrator, he was responsible for some of the agency's most memorable financial fraud cases. Sauer's articles on legal and financial topics have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron's. He is also a published novelist and holds a doctorate in law (SJD) from Harvard Law School. Sauer lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Eileen Killory.

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