The Greatest Trade Ever

@00000400@@00000327@‘The definitive account of a sensational trade‘ Michael Lewis, author of @00000373@The Big Short@00000155@@00000133@@00000163@@00000400@@00000327@Autumn 2008. The world‘s finances collapse but one man makes a killing.@00000133@@00000341@@00000327@@00000133@@00000341@John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and @00000373@The Greatest Trade Ever@00000155@ is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 Billion for his fund and more than $4 Billion for himself in a single year. It‘s a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.@00000163@@00000400@John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.@00000163@@00000400@‘Extraordinary, excellent‘ @00000373@Observer@00000155@@00000341@@00000373@@00000155@@00000341@‘A must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madness‘ @00000373@Mail on Sunday@00000155@@00000341@@00000373@@00000155@@00000341@‘A forensic, read-in-one-sitting book‘ @00000373@Sunday Times@00000155@@00000163@@00000400@‘Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash financial books‘ Malcolm Gladwell@00000163@@00000400@‘A great page-turner and a great illuminator of the market‘s crash‘ John Helyar, author of @00000373@Barbarians at the Gate@00000155@@00000163@