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Where are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed
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Description for Where are the Customers' Yachts?
Hardcover. "Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished.. What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively clean language-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business. Series: A Marketplace Book. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished . . .What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively cleanlanguage-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business."-Fromthe Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of Liar'sPoker
This hilarious portrait of everyday Wall Street and its denizensrings as true today as it did when it was first published in 1940.Writing with a rare mixture of wry cynicism and bonhomiereminiscent of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken, Fred Schwed, Jr.,skewers everyone including himself in his brilliant send-ups ofbankers, brokers, traders, investors, analysts, and haplesscustomers.
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"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished . . .What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively cleanlanguage-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business."-Fromthe Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of Liar'sPoker
This hilarious portrait of everyday Wall Street and its denizensrings as true today as it did when it was first published in 1940.Writing with a rare mixture of wry cynicism and bonhomiereminiscent of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken, Fred Schwed, Jr.,skewers everyone including himself in his brilliant send-ups ofbankers, brokers, traders, investors, analysts, and haplesscustomers.
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
A Marketplace Book
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471119791
SKU
V9780471119791
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Fred Schwed
Fred Schwed, Jr., was a professional trader who had the good sense to get out after losing a bundle (of mostly his own money) in the 1929 crash. Some years later, Schwed published a children's book titled Wacky, the Small Boy. Wacky became a bestseller, and Schwed went on to draw further on his experience in writing Where Are the ... Read more
Reviews for Where are the Customers' Yachts?
"wonderful book" (Evening Standard, 24 August 2001)