Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall StreetISBN: 978-0-470-63242-0
Paperback
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