Selling America Short (ePub)

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial
system and the agencies who attempt to control it

During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer
opened and supervised some of its most notable financial
cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and
returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors.
While a partner at a major law firm and, later, a hedge fund
manager, he saw firsthand the follies and failures of our system.
Now, in Selling America Short, he shares his extraordinary
experiences with you.

Selling America Short is a gripping chronicle of crooked
companies, financial philanderers and hapless enforcers told
through the eyes of personal experience. Page by page, it shows the
damage wrought by the deep biases and lack of worldly experience
common among those who hold the reins of our capital markets.

* Sheds light on the inner workings of our financial system

* Takes you on a fascinating journey of a rogue's gallery of
crooked executives, professional fraud enablers, and squirrelly
technocrats

* Offers a firsthand account of the many ways contrarian views of
public companies are suppressed and punished, depriving the market
of critical information

With the capital markets in turmoil, people are fascinated with
what is happening on Wall Street. This book provides a unique look
at the forces and events that led directly to financial tragedy and
continue to wreak havoc.