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Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street

ISBN: 978-0-470-63242-0
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304 pages
August 2010
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Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1: An Unanswered Invitation 1

Chapter 2: Lunch with Warren 9

Chapter 3: The Prairie Princes versus the Princes of Darkness 31

Chapter 4: The Insatiable Curiosity to Know Nothing Worth Knowing (Oscar Wilde Was Right) 41

Chapter 5: MAD Mortgages—The “Great” Against the Powerless 67

Chapter 6: Shell Games (Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts) 97

Chapter 7: Financial Astrology—AAA Falling Stars 107

Chapter 8: Bear Market (I’d Like a Review of the Bidding) 123

Chapter 9: Dead Man’s Curve 143

Chapter 10: Bazooka Hank and Dread Reckoning (AIG, Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, Merrill, and Other Fluid Situations) 163

Chapter 11: Bond Insurance Burns Main Street 179

Chapter 12: Money, Money, Money (Warren and Washington) 191

Chapter 13: The Fogs of War, Religion, and Politics 209

Chapter 14: Finding Value 219

Notes 225

Bibliography 259

Index 267

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