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Most of us are in the stock market, but few of us understand how it really works. This text explains the hidden dynamics of Wall Street, and its message is urgent and disturbing. As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come. Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Reason Does Not Prevail(p. 15)
• 2 Jerome's Legacy(p. 25)
• 3 The Right Time(p. 41)
• 4 A Galaxy of Financial Talent(p. 65)
• 5 A Fresh Look at the Familiar(p. 77)
• 6 Beware Overreachers(p. 93)
• 7 Beauty and the Beast(p. 105)
• 8 Unlocking Value(p. 121)
• 9 The Pretty Efficient Market(p. 137)
• 10 False Profits(p. 151)
• 11 Investing Under the Influence(p. 169)
• 12 Betting on Economies Rather Than Stocks(p. 177)
• 13 Honor Thy Father(p. 191)
• Acknowledgments(p. 201)
• Index(p. 205)

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Library Journal Review

Levy, one of the founders of the giant Oppenheimer Fund, offers a biography of his business life with lessons and opinions based on his over 50 years on Wall Street. Both a value investor and a contrarian, he strongly advocates reason and logic as a framework for risking his own money but repeatedly notes that investing is as much psychological as economic. Throughout his analysis, Levy blends in anecdotes from the Street to produce a short, well-written, and well-organized work. One of the better examples of this genre, this book will appeal to libraries that found John Neff on Investing popular. Recommended for all libraries with an investment interest.-Patrick J. Brunet, Western Wisconsin Technical Coll. Lib., LaCrosse (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

This well-written investment book delivers both adventure and financial insight, offering an intriguing theory that blends economic fundamentals with a keen understanding of the stock market's many moods. Levy, a legendary Wall Street investor with more than 50 years of experience and the founder of Oppenheimer Funds, certainly has a firm intellectual grasp on the inner workings of the stock market, but also sees its psychological dynamic. He fleshes out this analysis of the markets and the economy from the 1950s to today with amusing and exciting financial stories. Early in his career, Levy piggybacked on corporate raids run by J. Paul Getty and Sy Scheuer. After helping to found Oppenheimer and later, Odyssey Partners, he had the capital to lead the way. He explains each investment story step-by-step, from initial research to acquiring positions and influence, fighting through defenses and counterattacks, and finally cashing out years later, usually-but not always-at a handsome profit. Interwoven throughout the financial dramas are character vignettes, autobiographical sketches, anecdotes and thoughtful digressions on Levy's philanthropy, social theories and market theories. (Nov.) Forecast: Levy's association with Oppenheimer Funds should reel in investment-minded readers, and strong word-of-mouth could bring it decent sales. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Award winning journalist Eugene Linden is the author of books, articles and essays about science, technology and the environment. He has written a thought provoking, insightful book, "The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability" (1998).

In this book, Linden presents the thesis that rapid change is eminent and evident in climate conditions, the spread of infectious disease, volatile economic conditions, loss of biodiversity and other clues. The reader is then projected to 2050 as Linden presents the consequences of this instability. Somewhat of a doomsayer, the author's vision is not a pretty one: lethal plagues, deadly famine, catastrophic storms, economic collapse and more. But in the final analysis, some small hope is offered. "Over the millennia, humanity has proved to be an artful dodger of fate, a defier of limits, a surmounter of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and a master escape artist from traps laid by nature. Only the very brave or fool hardy would assert flatly that our resourceful species has finally exhausted its bag of tricks. Still, it is very late in the game."

Other books by Linden include "Apes, Men and Language" (1974), "The Alms Race: the Impact of American Voluntary Aid Abroad" (1976), "Affluence and Discontent: the Anatomy of Consumer Societies" (1979), and "Silent Partners: the Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments" (1986), a New York Times notable book.

Linden has been writing for Time magazine since 1987. Some of his award winning cover stories are "Doomed" (1995) exploring endangered tigers, "Megacities" (1993), dealing with overpopulation and "The World's Last Eden" (1992) about rain forest destruction. The author is a frequent guest on radio and television shows from Firing Line to Good Morning America and a contributor to a wide range of periodicals from The Wall Street Journal to National Geographic. .

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