CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Additional Praise for Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on TheStreet™
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Dedication
6. Foreword
7. Preface
8. Chapter 1: Where It Began
   1. Introduction
   2. The Contrarian
   3. A Longtime Bear Turns Bull
   4. What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
9. Chapter 2: Short-Selling
   1. Introduction
   2. The Case for Short-Selling
   3. Short-Sellers under Fire
   4. How to Short
   5. Lehman Can't Blame Shorts
   6. Stop Pointing Fingers at Short-Sellers
   7. Blame Game Is Dishonest
   8. 11 Ways to Fix the Short Ban
   9. Leave the Short-Sellers Alone
   10. In Defense of Short-Selling
10. Chapter 3: Lessons Learned
    1. Introduction
    2. Sniffing Out Bad Stocks
    3. Laugh at Your Own Expense
    4. When the Bond Market Talks, Listen
    5. Poker Is Flush with Insight for Traders
    6. My Tenets of Investing
    7. 12 Investment Principles for the Abyss
    8. My Recession Checklist
    9. Kill the Quants, Punish the ProBears
    10. Chase Value, Not Price
    11. Six Ways to Right Your Wrongs
    12. Four Stages of Market Turning Points
    13. Moving On
    14. Adapting to Mr. Market
    15. In Bernanke We Trust?
    16. America's Pastime Applies to Markets
    17. Let the Trading Day Commence
    18. A Delicate Balance
    19. The Lion's Share
    20. What to Do When You're Wrong
    21. Beware the Stock Market Trading Jones
    22. Addressing the Fiscal Cliff
    23. One Shining Moment
    24. Time Frames and Exposures
    25. Such a Long Time to Be Gone and a Short Time to Be Here
    26. 10 Laws of Stock Market Bubbles
    27. My Stock Market Super Bowl Indicator
11. Chapter 4: The Great Decession: Subprime and Credit/Debt Crisis
    1. Introduction
    2. Trouble Looms for the Homebuilders
    3. Stretched Consumer Nears Tipping Point
    4. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down
    5. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down (Part Deux)
    6. Housing Headed to the Woodshed
    7. Housing's Softness Has Long Reach
    8. Subpar Subprime a Growing Problem
    9. Ratings Are Subprime's Dirty Secret
    10. Subprime Fungus Will Spread
    11. Subprime's Siren Call
    12. Four to Blame for the Subprime Mess
    13. Fed Is No Savior in Subprime Slide
    14. The Simple Math of Subprime's Slide
    15. Housing Red Ink Could Spell Recession
    16. Hedge Funds' Dirty Little Debt Secret
    17. Loaded Up on Leverage
    18. Don't Underestimate How Bad Things Are
    19. No Quick and Easy Fix for This Market
    20. Brokers' Profits Riskier
    21. Shaking Off the Credit Nightmare
    22. Blinded by the Derivatives Boom
    23. A Market on the Brink
    24. Two Solutions to What Ails the Market
    25. Ready for the Bear Stearns Challenge?
    26. Investors Have Lost Their Innocence
    27. Wall Street Has Sold Out America
    28. Welcome to Dystopia
    29. Harder than the Average Bear
12. Chapter 5: Recovery
    1. Introduction
    2. The Parable of the Mustard Seed
    3. On the Road to Recovery
    4. Fear and Loathing on Wall Street
    5. Bottoms Up, Mr. Market
    6. Bottom Call (Part Deux)
    7. Printing an Important Market Bottom
    8. It Ain't Heavy, It's a Bottom
    9. The Little Market that Could
13. Chapter 6: Against the Grain
    1. Introduction
    2. Experts Agree, Recession Is Over
    3. Market Has Likely Topped
    4. Bearish Arguments Are Roaring
    5. Top 20 Signs How Bad the Economy Is
    6. More Nuance Is in Store
    7. We Are the World
    8. The Decade of the Temporary Worker
    9. The Scale Tips to the Bullish Side
    10. The Lost Decade Has Passed Us
    11. Equities Edge toward a Top
    12. More on Screwflation
    13. A Contagion of Black Swans
    14. Apocalypse Soon
    15. 10 Reasons to Buy American
    16. The Case for Shorting U.S. Bonds
    17. Residential Real Estate Is Ready to Recover
    18. The Bear Case for Apple
    19. A House Divided against Itself
    20. Beware the Interest Rate Cliff
    21. Housing Faces a Credit Event
    22. QE's Growing Impotence
    23. Flawed Case for a Bull Market
    24. Everybody in the Pool
    25. Expect the Unexpected in 2014
    26. Climbing a Wall of Complacency
    27. Turn, Turn, Turn
14. Chapter 7: Wall Street Personalities
    1. Introduction
    2. A Soros Story
    3. The Bearded Prophet of the Apocalypse
    4. On Being Jim Cramer
    5. Defending Cramer
    6. Defending Cramer (Part Deux)
    7. Leon Cooperman and James Brown: The Godfathers of Hard Work
    8. Ben Stein Whistles Past Mortgage Mess
    9. Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ben Stein
    10. Ben Stein Blames You
    11. Eat My Shorts, Ben Stein
    12. My Q&A with Nouriel Roubini
    13. The Orchid Indicator
    14. The Most Important Book
    15. The Gospel According to Barton Biggs
    16. Walt's Wit
    17. Alan Abelson and Me
    18. An Open Letter to Sir Larry Kudlow
    19. More Remarkable Tales of Boca Biff
15. Chapter 8: Buffett Watch
    1. Introduction
    2. 11 Reasons to Short Berkshire
    3. Buffett Veers Off His Investment Path
    4. Warren Buffett Has Lost His Groove
    5. Buffett Brought Down to Earth
    6. Is This the End of Warren Buffett?
    7. One of the Worst Beatings Ever
    8. Buy American? I'm Damned!
    9. Burlington Bet Could Derail Berkshire
    10. Omaha, Here I Come!
    11. My Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha
    12. Warren and Me
    13. Little-Known Facts about Warren Buffett
    14. Conversing with the Oracle
    15. My Berkshire Q&A Recap
    16. The Rabbi and the Oracle
    17. Lessons Never Learned
16. Chapter 9: Surprises
    1. Introduction
    2. Lessons Learned over the Years
    3. Consensus Is Often Wrong
    4. 25 Surprises for 2003
    5. Surprises in Store for 2004
    6. Some Surprises in Store for 2005
    7. Surprises for 2006
    8. 25 Surprises for 2007
    9. 20 Surprises for 2008
    10. 20 Surprises for 2009
    11. 20 Surprises for 2010
    12. 15 Surprises for 2011
    13. 15 Surprises for 2012
    14. Five More Surprises for 2012
    15. 15 Surprises for 2013
    16. 15 Surprises for 2014
17. Epilogue
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