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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: Re: _Inside_Out_: a tale of insider trading
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:24:31 GMT
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- In article <1jnh5gINN8i6@gambier.rick.cs.ubc.ca> c6y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Julien Rene Sellgren) writes:
- >I am currently reading _Inside Out_, by Dennis Levine, and I my
- >jaw is hanging.
- >
- >It is a true story about Wall Street during the roaring eighties,
- ^^^^
- >when the markets and the Merger and Aquisition Business were
- >booming. Levine tells a factual tale about his carreer both as a
- ^^^^^^^
- >corporate deal-maker, and as a private inside trader. He was
- >the first of many big players to get busted for his illegal trades.
- >
- >What amazes me is how much money these guys were pulling in, and
- >how easy it was for them to do it. Before he got caught and
- >arrested in 1986, his insider deals were netting one million
- >dollars +. Incredible. Throughout the whole book, he constantly
- >re-iterates how easy it was: He simply went to work, and when
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >he found out through the normal course of daily business that
- >a company was beeing 'aquired' he would take up a position in
- ^^^^^^^
- >that company via his secret account in the Carabean. When the
- ^^^^^^^^
- >takeover announcement was made public, he would sell out for an
- >incredible profit...
- >
- >The cool thing about this book is that he goes into great detail
- ^^^^
- >about the deals and the players he was involed with. I am finding
- >it fascinating to learn how all these companies (whos names
- >I recongnize) were traded around like hockey cards by these billion
- >dollar tycoons.
- >
- >I am not advocating insider trading, but this is a fascinating story.
- >
- >-Julien
- >
- >
-
- How can you be so naively fascinated and believe a
- convicted crook doing his time in jail, who is seeking
- publicity by writing a tell-all book (like almost every
- notorious criminal seems to be doing)? Just wait to see
- his story on TV in one of those slimy crime-of-the-week
- movies... Read more, but not the junk written by the
- perpetrators, but by somewhat more reputable authors.
-
- Tony
- tony2@cc.bellcore.com
-