Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself

by Robert Sloan

Book Overview

Listed in Bloomberg's TOP 50 BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2010 and shortlisted for Spear's FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE YEAR AWARD

"Robert Sloan works in the hedge-fund industry. As he shows in this readable polemic, dislike of shorting has a long history. . . . Someone has to point out when the emperor has no clothes. The shorts were among the biggest skeptics of the subprime-mortgage boom and of the banks that financed it. And when they were proved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071636862
• ISBN13: 9780071636865
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"