Den of Thieves

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Over time, the financial markets have shown remarkable e resilience and an ability to curb their own excesses. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter lays bare the era when crimes of unparalleles proportions flourished on Wall Street. By carefully planting stories they could build momentum for mergers and speculation that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.

As far as Wall Street crimes go, the insider trading scandal of the 1980s was not much different than the ones that have occurred since. Yet their overriding success in prosecuting the major culprits and reinvigorating the securities laws is a tribute to the American system of justice. The same choice is now being played out on a much larger scale in Europe as the social safety net is being reduced toward elimination for the good of the financial markets (they want their money, even though the amount of money paid already could easily have paid off the principal with interest to spare).James Stewart is a modern-day muckraking journalist, covering everything from malpractice to fraud and law. My grasp on the most intricate of the intricacies was tenuous, but it's really just a human story anyway. He led the investigators to Martin Siegel, a Harvard graduate and respected investment banker, and Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street arbitrageur.

She gets sea-sick and is bullied by her fellow ballerinas who do their best to make her experience with them a misery.While the author managed to wring every drop of fun out of this storyline, which was drawn out beyond any bystander's control, it often enters dull and tedious stretches. In contrast, Iceland did not destroy its citizen-conscious socially responsible society when it was decimated by the international financial misdeeds of 2008 (or thereabouts). Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

Stewart’s phenomenal “ Den of Thieves” is about four of them: Dennis Levine, Michael Milken, Martin Siegel, and Ivan Boesky. I was enthralled as the house of cards was built higher and higher than it was every designed to go, and it was exhilarating to watch the cards near the bottom removed one by one before the whole thing came tumbling down. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. I stopped reading it because I decided that there are more uplifiting, higher value books that I would rather read.And with the help of a drunken sea captain, Monsieur Bonaventure, sails set for England and all ends well. Confessional: in this criminal climate we currently live in, I had a hard time reading about a group of individuals who had a blatant disregard for the law. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties' biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine—created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.