Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

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John Malcolm, a hungry young Princeton grad, traveled halfway across the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could, quite simply, be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. Surrounded by characters ripped out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world-at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever seen. Malcolm and his twenty-something, Ivy League-schooled colleagues, with there warped sense of morality and proportion, created their own economic theory: Arbitrage with a Battle Axe. They rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid - to late 1990s, culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before - or since.