Chapter 6 When Success Doesn’t Translate
Defeated by Decency
Don’t Try to Get Rich Twice
Notes
9 Chapter 7 When Fraud Flourishes When There’s an ‘Expert’ with a Good Story When Capital Becomes Blind When the Banking Industry Gets Involved When Individuals Begin Taking Their Cues from the Crowd When Markets Are Rocking When the Opportunity Presents Itself When Human Beings Are Involved When Innovation Runs Rampant Notes
10 Chapter 8 The Siren Song of New Technologies The Railway Napoleon The Media’s Role in a Bubble The Other Side The Silver Lining of a Market Crash Notes
11 Chapter 9 The Seductive Power of FOMO How to Create a Monopoly The Roaring 20s When the Tide Goes Out Not a Ponzi but Close Enough The Seductive Power of FOMO Notes
12 Chapter 10 Type I Charlatan John Law and the Mississippi Company Speculation Is a Hell of a Drug Pop Goes the Bubble Type I and Type II Charlatans Notes
13 Chapter 11 Type II Charlatan The South Sea Company Type II Charlatan John Blunt The Bubble Act The Echo Bubble and Dunbar’s Number Notes
14 Chapter 12 Fooled by Intelligence Newton’s Mania The Problem with Smartest People in the Room Why Smart People Make Dumb Decisions Fooling Yourself with Complexity Notes
15 Chapter 13 How Gullible Are You? Ponzi versus Bernie The Sacred Relationship Notes
16 Chapter 14 The Easiest Person to Fool Getting Rich versus Staying Rich Shot out of a Cannon The Biggest Fraud of All Notes
17 Conclusion: Six Signs of Financial Fraud 1. The Money Manager Has Custody of Your Assets 2. There Is an Aura of Exclusivity in the Pitch 3. When the Strategy Is too Complicated to Understand 4. When the Story Is too Good to Be True 5. When the Returns Are Ridiculously Good 6. When They Tell You Exactly What You Want to Hear Notes
18 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 8Table 8.1
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Bad Brad’s Reported Hedge Fund Returns
Guide
1 Cover
