在线阅读本书 FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them. In his behind-the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of one of the world's top investment firms, Partnoy recounts the macho attitudes and fiercely competitive ploys of his office mates. And he takes us to the annual drunken skeet-shooting competition, FIASCO, where he and his colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they are encouraged to use against their competitiors, their clients, and each other. FIASCO is the first book to take on the derivatves trading industry--the most highly charged and risky sector of the stock market. More importantly, it is a blistering indictment of the largely unregulated market in derivatives and serves as a warning to unwary investors about real fiascos, which have cost billions of dollars.

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar’s Poker . Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely—really unlikely—heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

This is a great book to see in life in Investment Bank and Wall Street. Perhaps it's just a novel, but it can offer much more to the reader.

《Value》杂志推荐的55本投资经典书籍之一。 　　《克拉默投资真经》作者的成名之作，透视20世纪90年代华尔街的交易内幕，讲述一个投资明星的沉浮兴衰！ 　　在华尔街，这个资本市场的最高神殿，在千千万万虔诚的朝圣者，而我只是其中的一个。你可以看到，有的人正在走出来，有的人还要挤进去，它散布的气息，越传越远，最后的审判无法预知…… 　　很难想象谁会比詹姆斯·J·克拉默更疯狂、更偏执。在本书中，克拉默尽可能避免以往那种泛泛的炒作，而以自己真实的形象来描述华尔街的生活，这才是本书与众不同的看点……本书为那些满脑子总是装着股票而夜不能寱的人们提供了广博的市场内部信息和操作技巧，书中的语言坦诚而诙谐。真的不容错过！——亚马逊网站 　　克拉默，那个常常出现在CNBC节目上的“亢奋的家伙……他的大嘴总是狂热而又权威地向人们谈论如何赚钱。”本书讲述了他是如何从一个毛头小伙子成长为华尔街风云人物的，情节跌宕起伏，充满了颇富智慧的较量和神奇的投资经验，堪称是近十年来最佳的财经故事。——《出版家周刊》 　　在华尔街人人都知道克拉默，克拉默比谁都了解华尔街。 　　本书精彩地记录了克拉默作为一个华尔街基金经理的沉浮兴衰——令人发狂的工作节奏、瞬息万变的市场动态、来自其他基金经理的重重压力、发现某个基金处于危机中时发动的鲨鱼式攻击，以及面临灭顶之灾时的恐慌不安。神话般的一朝致富和噩梦般的倾家荡产同样发生在克拉默身上，但他的基金公司从一次次的毁灭之火中幸运地生存了下来，年复合收益率达到24%，成为华尔街最成功的对冲基金之一。 　　克拉默在书中用精彩诙谐的语言展现了他鲜明的个性，他对每一个人，包括他自己，都坦白直率而又粗暴无礼。他毫无保留地向读者展示了华尔街的生活——游戏是怎样玩法，谁不守规则就会受到无情的惩罚。 　　迄今为止，还从来没有一本书如此热情四射地描写过华尔街。

Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant, he traces his transformation from ambitious young scientist to managing director and head of the renowned Quantitative Strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Derman’s tale recounts his adventures with quants, traders and other high fliers on Wall Street as he became the best-known quant in the business. He describes the struggles of research and his interactions with an assorted cast of famous scientists. He relates his impressions of some of the most creative minds on Wall Street, including Fischer Black, with whom he collaborated on the widely used Black-Derman-Toy model of interest rates. Throughout his story he reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets and the people that inhabit them.