Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager - Softcover

"My favorite book written about the financial crisis. . . . Highly recommended."--Ezra Klein, The Washington Post

"Eminently readable. . . . Always engaging. . . . Although it is not fiction, Diary of a Very Bad Year is, in its own way, an attempt to bridge the gulf between the literary and financial worlds."--Financial Times

"Diary of a Very Bad Year takes the first steps toward putting a human face on the funds."--Newsweek

"A wonderful book. Diary of a Very Bad Year is a fascinating commentary on the crisis and a great read."--David Backus, Professor of Economics and Finance, NYU's Stern School of Business

"A short, illuminating set of interviews with one savvy, articulate Wall Streeter. . . . A penetrating, educational and at times harrowing play-by-play."--Time magazine

"Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that's both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining."--James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds

"A highly readable refresher on the financial crisis. . . . Amazingly--and largely because of the anonymity he's granted--the nameless hedgie gives straight answers. . . . While HFM comes off as a bro you don't want to mess with, the book is packed with plenty of humor."--The Wall Street Journal

"Diary of a Very Bad Year does something few of the books written about the crisis have accomplished: It delivers an insider perspective on the events in real time, rather than dwelling on conclusions reached after the fact."--BusinessWeek

"HFM does a good job of teaching the reader how mortgage-backed paper, money-market funds, and credit-default swaps work, while offering up juicier tidbits about the ethics and legalities of his sector."--Time Out New York

"A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional's view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009."--Booklist

A first book by the creators of the popular website and semi-annual print journal features provocative interviews with an anonymous hedge fund manager on the global economic crisis, in a volume framed by narrative vignettes on major contributing factors. Original. 40,000 first printing.