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Tom Wright 出版社: Hachette Books 副标题: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World 出版年: 2018-9-18 页数: 400 定价: GBP 21.05 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316436502
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund-...
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.
作者简介
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Tom Wright was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the raid in which Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. In 2013, he spearheaded coverage of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 people, earning the Wall Street Journal a Sigma Delta Chi award from The Society of Professional Journalists. He is a Pulitzer finalist, a Loeb...
Tom Wright was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the raid in which Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. In 2013, he spearheaded coverage of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 people, earning the Wall Street Journal a Sigma Delta Chi award from The Society of Professional Journalists. He is a Pulitzer finalist, a Loeb winner, and has garnered numerous awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia, which in 2016 named him "Journalist of the Year." He speaks English, Malay, French and Italian.
Bradley Hope has worked for the Wall Street Journal for the last four years, covering finance and malfeasance from New York City and London. Before that, he spent six years as a correspondent in the Middle East, where he covered the Arab Spring uprisings from Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, and Beirut. He was detained by authorities in Bahrain, reported from the front lines of the Libyan civil war, and has been teargassed in raucous Egyptian protests. Bradley is a Pulitzer finalist and a Loeb winner, and also author of Last Days of the Pharaoh, a chronicle of the final days and hours of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.
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Himself no stranger to fraud, Jordan Belfort thought something wasn’t right about this setup. The event must have cost at least $3 million, Belfort calculated, as he nibbled on canapes and watched the A-list entertainment, And the movie hadn’t even gone into production
“This is a fucking scam--anybody who does this has stolen money, "Belfort told Anne, as the music thumped. "You wouldn’t spend money you worked for like that”
A few months later, Low would offer Belfort $500,000 to attend an event in Las Vegas with Dicaprio, Red Granite had paid him handsomely for the rights to his memoir. But Belfort was starting to distrust this group. Eager to stay out of trouble focusing instead on his new career as a writer and motivational speaker, Belfort turned them down, but Dicaprio and his costar... (查看原文)
看了这本书里的一马公司行骗手段，和 Theranos 的案件情节，深深感到大规模诈骗这件事，技巧并不是最重要的，最重要的是心理游戏。让一两个重要人物上钩之后，其他人（即使是非常有名望的人）就会立刻有FOMO心态，觉得「那谁谁谁都加入了，我也要」。因为拥有小圈子才有的任何事物是一种 status，至于这背后到底如何运作，没人懂，也没人真的关心。
之前看有人说 Nobody knows what t...看了这本书里的一马公司行骗手段，和 Theranos 的案件情节，深深感到大规模诈骗这件事，技巧并不是最重要的，最重要的是心理游戏。让一两个重要人物上钩之后，其他人（即使是非常有名望的人）就会立刻有FOMO心态，觉得「那谁谁谁都加入了，我也要」。因为拥有小圈子才有的任何事物是一种 status，至于这背后到底如何运作，没人懂，也没人真的关心。
之前看有人说 Nobody knows what the fuck they are doing. Those who have the confidence win. 「草台班子」理论在哪都适用。越在意外界如何看自己，越容易被人利用。不论是 Theranos 案里被骗的默多克、基辛格、和其他美军上将；还是一马案里被骗的华尔街银行、好莱坞明星。(展开)
最近读了一本书叫《Billion Dollar Whale》，台湾版的译名叫《鲸吞亿万》。这本书讲的是一个叫Jho Low的马来西亚人，在沃顿商学院毕业以后通过和马来西亚当时的总理，沙特的外交官，以及沙特主权基金的成员进行勾结，以1MDB这个马来西亚主权基金为载体，诈欺，洗钱，大量挪用公...
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Only the reality can tell such an unimaginable story. All the characters involved in the case, especially Jho Low, challenged the bottom line of humanity. Living in the so called civilized society, sometimes I really want to question about humans’ conscien...
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1 有用 蛋吉吉 2018-10-24 21:38:26
八卦！力荐！盗国指南。
2 有用 N 2019-01-13 04:23:20
千萬別惹財經調查記者。
1 有用 季蛋黄 2020-08-21 13:41:14
骗子拿钱投资华尔街之狼，想想就很讽刺。
1 有用 celestesky 2020-04-19 17:22:34
精彩程度堪比华尔街之狼+了不起的盖兹比...然而Jho Low至今依然逍遥法外、相比美国陷阱中锒铛入狱的法国高管，只能感叹这个世界的可笑
6 有用 Frank 2018-11-11 10:52:03
胆大妄为，很多细节看得让人目瞪口呆。认识其中一个配角，有种亲历历史的感觉...
0 有用 冬天 2024-04-07 04:58:28 美国
看了这本书里的一马公司行骗手段，和 Theranos 的案件情节，深深感到大规模诈骗这件事，技巧并不是最重要的，最重要的是心理游戏。让一两个重要人物上钩之后，其他人（即使是非常有名望的人）就会立刻有FOMO心态，觉得「那谁谁谁都加入了，我也要」。因为拥有小圈子才有的任何事物是一种 status，至于这背后到底如何运作，没人懂，也没人真的关心。 之前看有人说 Nobody knows what t... 看了这本书里的一马公司行骗手段，和 Theranos 的案件情节，深深感到大规模诈骗这件事，技巧并不是最重要的，最重要的是心理游戏。让一两个重要人物上钩之后，其他人（即使是非常有名望的人）就会立刻有FOMO心态，觉得「那谁谁谁都加入了，我也要」。因为拥有小圈子才有的任何事物是一种 status，至于这背后到底如何运作，没人懂，也没人真的关心。 之前看有人说 Nobody knows what the fuck they are doing. Those who have the confidence win. 「草台班子」理论在哪都适用。越在意外界如何看自己，越容易被人利用。不论是 Theranos 案里被骗的默多克、基辛格、和其他美军上将；还是一马案里被骗的华尔街银行、好莱坞明星。 (展开)
0 有用 比比囖袋嗑 2024-03-16 23:42:36 上海
3.5星，这本书是去年看完bad blood豆瓣推荐我的，拿起放下几次，终于读完了。有些小失望，冗长的流水账，挥金如土部分仿佛小时代。非金融人士的我仿佛看完了一整本银行明细，震惊jho low仍旧逍遥法外！(台版书名翻译优秀《鲸吞亿万》)
0 有用 freesia 2024-02-06 09:07:55 美国
世界是个草台班子，最大胆的小丑往往站在舞台更中央
0 有用 我只有两只脚 2024-01-04 10:30:10 上海
比较简单但是大胆的金融操作，但我觉得有个背景，就是短期迅速拿到大量现金的，目标。没采访到本人，这个纪实故事还是有较大遗憾的
0 有用 Batata 2024-01-02 00:43:54 法国
4.5/5 书里写到某个参加过JL一个party的人说的：从他花钱的方式就能看得出来，这些钱不是他的，没有人会这么流水一般地花自己挣来的钱