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Ugly Americans
Ugly Americans | Ben Mezrich
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Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge—kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East.Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues, with their warped sense of morality, created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before—or since.Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.
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vlwelser
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This was interesting. I do like this author. But I may be more into the science stuff. This sort of reads like a novel. Or Office Space. But it's about real people who did some fairly shady shit while trading stocks in Japan.

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Vivlio_Gnosi
Ugly Americans | Ben Mezrich
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Moved this book from #TBR stack to my current read list. #Nonfiction #audiobook

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bitterbear
Ugly Americans | Ben Mezrich
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The media is the opposition party...... 😒😒😒😒

TheNextBook I got nothing. Honestly absolutely nothing. 8y
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Tav
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Threw in a load of whites this morning so I'm sharing the current offerings on my building's book "shelf." Pretty weak! I read Ugly Americans when it came out years ago; it's got all the elements of what made Ben Mezrich's book about the Ivy Leaguers who beat Vegas casinos so enjoyable, but the scam -- the US oil commodities market -- esoteric. Plus, there really wasn't a likable character in the whole book. Colorful ones, sure, but not likable.

LauraBeth How To Meet Cute Boys - what's that about? 🙄 8y
BethFishReads Very weak 8y
Tav @BethFishReads right?! I am tempted to bring home some books from work just so I don't pity the shelf. 8y
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