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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Lawson, Guy.     Subjects     Israel, Samuel, 1959-     Stockbrokers -- United States -- Biography.     Hedge funds -- United States.     Hedge funds.     Hedging (Finance)     Fraud -- United States -- Case studies.     Businessmen -- United States -- Biography     Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lawson, Guy.       by title:      Octopus : Sam Israel...       by call number:      332.645 L425o     Search the Web     Lawson, Guy.     Israel, Samuel, 1959-     Stockbrokers -- United States -- Biography.     Hedge funds -- United States.     Hedge funds.     Hedging (Finance)     Fraud -- United States -- Case studies.     Businessmen -- United States -- Biography     Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)       MARC Display

Octopus : Sam Israel, the secret market, and Wall Street's wildest con / Guy Lawson. by Lawson, Guy. Crown Business, c2012. Call #: 332.645 L425o Subjects Israel, Samuel, 1959-   Stockbrokers -- United States -- Biography.   Hedge funds -- United States.   Hedge funds.   Hedging (Finance)   Fraud -- United States -- Case studies.   Businessmen -- United States -- Biography   Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) ISBN:  9780307716071 (hc.) 0307716074 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xv, 352 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Trust -- Upstairs -- Front-running -- Other people's money -- The problem -- Boy in the bubble -- Scumbaggery -- The Trump house -- Adventure capital -- Octopus -- The shadow market -- The big lie -- As real as rain -- Exploding heads -- Deliverance -- The snake pit -- Yamashita's gold -- Redemption -- The afterlife. Summary:  This story is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a hedge fund fraud and the wild search, for a secret market beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all, until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program he had created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. But his future was already beginning to unravel. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a secret market run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in the "Upperworld", a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the secret market was real or a con, Israel was all in, and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus' tentacles. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 332.645 L425o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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