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Bad News Bears: The Guys Who Bet Against the Bubble and Won
nymag.com - 11/3/2009
Bad News Bears: The Guys Who Bet Against the Bubble and Won
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John Paulson LOCATION: New York BACKSTORY: Back in 2006, Paulson & Company was "just another ham-and-cheese operation in a crowded space," and its founder was known mostly for the parties he had held back in the nineties at his Soho loft, which featured "good food, plentiful drink; and access to ...

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John Paulson Once Had Self-Doubts
Dealbreaker — ... , chronicles the stories of a bunch of guys who actually made money off that can't lose asset class, subprime. But it wasn't all rolling around in sticky fifties from the get-go. Daily Intel runs through the book's subjects, and the adversity they had to overcome, before doing stuff like making $15 billion in one year, and writing a fuck-off letter to the industry, ...

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Abnormal Returns — ... Checking in with the guys who bet against the bubble and won.  (Daily Intel via ...

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