本书是作者以自己的亲身经历，记录了华尔街著名投资银行摩根士丹利，是怎样把一个耶鲁法学院的高才生，培养成了一名商场上的射击手。这些射击手，坐着飞机头等舱，出入豪华酒店，与世界各国的大公司交易着由世界顶级数学家、物理学家设计出来的金融产品。无数自以为非常成功的企业家和企业职业经理们，在只理解了华尔街出产的金融产品的一些皮毛后，就将几十亿美金送进了摩根士丹利的口袋。
在华尔街，如果有人说你是个好人，他的言外之意就是你是个笨蛋。对于大多数金融产品而言，买卖双方的盈亏之和等于零，也就是说一方的利润就是另一方的损失。本书作者所在的部门平均每人每年为公司赚1500万美元。书中提到的许多美国著名公司都是这些利润背后的牺牲品。
随着中国进入WTO，中国的金融市场也在快速地与国际金融接轨。在这重要的历史时期，本书几乎就是一本教科书。它教我们提高对金融产品的风险认识，防止华尔街银行家们利用我们对金融产品的无知来收学费。
前一时期发生的中航油事件，和摩根士丹利在中国收购的第一笔银行不良资产，都应该让我们深深地叹口气：要是早点读读《诚信的背后》就好了。

On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story of the Fed's unprecedented move, the incredible heights reached by LTCM, and the firm's eventual dramatic demise.
Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, examines the personalities, academic experts, and professional relationships at LTCM and uncovers the layers of numbers behind its roller-coaster ride with the precision of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease and enticed most of his former Salomon hires--and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve--to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds.
LTCM began trading in 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph.D.-touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping $1.25 billion. The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned $1.6 billion, profits that exceeded 40 percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996, it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting.
The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan). Lowenstein's smooth, conversational but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. --S. Ketchum

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In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of "Wall Street", America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. "Wall Street" is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

作者毕业于北京大学，求学美国，经过数年奋斗，成为华尔街交易员。本以为面前的是一条金光大道，却不料一场突如其来的金融海啸，将世界经济推到了悬崖边缘，也将所有的目光聚焦到风暴眼——华尔街上。
身为华尔街一线交易员，作者从市场交易冷暖的角度，看出华尔街乃至全球经济的风云变化， 带领读者体会“风起于青萍之末”的细微、“火烧连营船”的惨烈、“无可奈何花落去”的崩盘。以冷静又还些诙谐的笔触，将海啸原由一一细数。鲜花基金凋谢、夏季风暴、次贷危机、华尔街投行大佬依次蒙难，直到打开潘多拉的盒子，引出保尔森救援计划。
峰回路转，作者更描画出后海啸时代华尔街的新秩序、新市场、新思维，让读者对现在的华尔街有更深层次认识和了解，其目的在于，不是为了简单的再回首，而是警示当下，在美联储量化货宽松币政策之下，新一轮隐患又埋下伏笔。