John Paulson emerged from the mortgage bust a very clever hero. Yes, he was a billionaire hedge-fund manager at a time when Wall Street was in serious disrepute. But the contrarian who had the foresight to bet against the housing bubble, taking [...]
Greenberg deftly assembles a rogues’ gallery of characters who fell prey to this
false sense of invulnerability: drug marketers, thick-necked federal agents,
globe-trotting libertarians