Confidence Game

How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff

Ranked #20 in Hedge Funds, Ranked #37 in Insurance

An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis.

The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the "Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times," and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors...
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