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020			_a9780099455059
082			_a332.645240922 MEZ
100			_aMezrich, Ben
245		0	_aUgly Americans: the true story of the Ivy league cowboys who raided Asia in search of the American dream
260			_aLondon
260			_bArrow Books
260			_c2004
300			_a341 p.
365			_b550
365			_dRS
520			_aThe true story of the Ivy League hedge fund cowboys who gambled with the dangerously high stakes of the Asian stock market. John Malcolm, high school football hero and Princeton graduate made his millions back in the early '90s, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian stock markets, gambling at impossibly high stakes and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace à la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese Yakuza: one of the world's most notoriously violent organised crime syndicates. Ugly Americans tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a high octane book, filled with glamour, money and the dangers these incur, this true story is a cross between Mezrich's own best-selling Bringing Down the House and Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker.
650			_aFinancial trading
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