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The Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors

ISBN: 978-0-470-48106-6
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272 pages
January 2010
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Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Kirk Kerkorian: Due Diligence is Due Every Time.

Chapter 2 David Bonderman: Does This Mean I Also Overpaid for the Rolling Stones?

Chapter 3 Aubrey McClendon: Falling on the Wrong Edge of the Two-Edged Leverage Sword.

Chapter 4 Bill Ackman: Detour from Discipline.

Chapter 5 Nick Maounis: "Trust, But Verify…."

Chapter 6 Leon Cooperman: The Pirate of Prague Meets the Prince of Princeton—and the Boy from the Bronx Gets Squeezed.

Chapter 7 Richard Pzena: Fashions Change, History Persists—or Does It?

Chapter 8 Geoff Grant: Style Drift—It's Hot Till It's Not.

Chapter 9 Volkswagen and Porsche: The Hare Finally Wins and the Shorts Get Squeezed.

Chapter 10 Chris Davis: It Was Dressed Like an Insurance Company, but It Didn't Quack Like One…

Chapter 11 Madoff Investors: Hook, Line, and Sunk.

Epilogue: Me Too: Mistakes I've Made and Lessons I've Learned.

Notes.

Glossary.

About the Author.

Index.

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