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The Bond King

by Mary Childs
Mary Childs
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This program is read by the author.
From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever.
Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.
The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today's most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession—to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.
To understand the winners and losers of today's money game, journalist Mary Childs argues, is to understand the bond market—and to understand the bond market is to understand the Bond King.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

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Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781250818652
  • File size: 324889 KB
  • Release date: March 15, 2022
  • Duration: 11:16:51

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781250818652
  • File size: 324940 KB
  • Release date: March 15, 2022
  • Duration: 11:21:45
  • Number of parts: 13

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Biography & Autobiography Business Nonfiction Economics

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This program is read by the author.
From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever.
Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.
The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today's most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession—to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.
To understand the winners and losers of today's money game, journalist Mary Childs argues, is to understand the bond market—and to understand the bond market is to understand the Bond King.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Business Nonfiction Economics
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Macmillan Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250818652
    File size: 324889 KB
    Release date: March 15, 2022
    Duration: 11:16:51

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250818652
    File size: 324940 KB
    Release date: March 15, 2022
    Duration: 11:21:45
    Number of parts: 13

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English