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041 _aEnglish
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100 _aDreyfuss, Barbara T.
245 0 _aHedge hogs: the cowboy traders behind wall street's largest
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500 _aAt its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than
_9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely collapsed. The disaster was largely triggered by one man: hotshot trader Brian Hunter. His high-risk bets on natural gas prices bankrupted his firm and destroyed his career, while John Arnold, his rival at competitor fund Centaurus, emerged as the highest-paid trader on Wall Street. A riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the largest hedge fund collapse in history: a blistering tale of the recent past that explains our precarious present-- and may predict our future.
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