Dear Mr. Buffett_ What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street - Janet M. Tavakoli [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Epigraph
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 - An Unanswered Invitation
Chapter 2 - Lunch with Warren
Chapter 3 - The Prairie Princes versus the Princes of Darkness
Chapter 4 - The Insatiable Curiosity to Know Nothing Worth Knowing (Oscar Wilde ...
Chapter 5 - MAD Mortgages—The “Great” Against the Powerless
Chapter 6 - Shell Games (Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts)
Chapter 7 - Financial Astrology—AAA Falling Stars
Chapter 8 - Bear Market (I’d Like a Review of the Bidding)
Chapter 9 - Dead Man’s Curve
Chapter 10 - Bazooka Hank and Dread Reckoning (AIG, Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, ...
Chapter 11 - Bond Insurance Burns Main Street
Chapter 12 - Money, Money, Money (Warren and Washington)
Chapter 13 - The Fogs of War, Religion, and Politics
Chapter 14 - Finding Value
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Tavakoli, Janet M.
Dear Mr. Buffet: what an investor learns 1,269 miles from Wall Street / Janet M.Tavakoli.
p. cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-470-44273-9
1. Investments—Decision making. 2. Investment analysis. 3. Financial risk
management. 4. Value. 5. Buffett,Warren. 6. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 7. Tavakoli,
Janet M. I. Title.
HG4521.T34 2009
332.6-dc22 2008035055
332.6—dc22 2008035055
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—Marcus Aurelius
Preface
In 2003, I moved from London to Chicago, my original hometown, and founded a finance consulting firm,Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. Sophisticated financial institutions call me when they have trouble understanding complex financial products, and in recent years, the products have exploded