Out of the Box and Onto Wall Street by Grant, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Title Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Part I : The Wizard Calls the Ball

Chapter 1 : The Implosion of the Housing Agencies

Get Back to Where You Once Belonged The Cost of Not Honoring Obligations The Agencies and Uncertainty The GSE Agencies as an Opportunity What Is Given Can Be Taken We Have Been Grievously Misled One Moment, Please! Freddie Mac and the Fairy Tale

Chapter 2 : The Call on the 10-Year Treasury

There Is No Blushing in Brussels Spasms of Fear One of These Days The Legacy Influences Highway to the Danger Zone The “First-Class Indicator”

Chapter 3 : The Importance of the Euro

Dolphins/Pelicans—Things that Matter Manna from Heaven Greek Downgrades—The Fallout It Is Not All Greek to Me Self-Determination Becomes an Issue If You Know How to Work It With an Eye on Europe Once Again

Chapter 4 : Turmoil in Greece

The Greek Tragedy Becomes Farce Greece on the Skids The Shutdown in Greece Greek Austerity and Other Fairy Tales The Fifth Labor of Hercules Why Greece Matters Greece for Dummies ΑΦΗΣΤE ΤΑ ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΑ ΝΑ ΑΡΧΙΣΟΥΝ I Am Not Backing Down The EU Scenarios for Greece

Chapter 5 : The Crisis in Europe

The PIIGS of Europe The Volker Rule—A Call for Action Achtung, Absolument, and Being There The Fire Is Out of Control The European Union in Stress The European Union in Crisis A Matter of Perspective I Make the Call—The Credit Crisis, Part II Stopped at the English Channel An Easy Choice Record Deposits at the ECB Nationalism Is the Trump Card The Wizard’s Stress Test Primer Who Espied the Beggar’s Leap? The EU Ambassador Now Speaks for Britain

Part II : Learning to Dance Until It Moves

Chapter 6 : CPI Linked Securities

Structured Products The Time Is Right The Value of CIPS The Mouse Trap Is Baited The Deflation Trade

Chapter 7 : The Wisdom of Buying Senior Debt to Preferred Stock

Ahoy—Your Key to the Treasure! The Gift The Most Unique of Opportunities Songs of the Siren With Apologies to My Mother Unintended Consequences Seize the Opportunity (Carpe Vicis) The Process of Elimination

Chapter 8 : AIG Debt

Our Undiscernible Future His God Was Compound Interest Unintended Consequences and Opportunities The Church Separates from the State The Wizard’s Apprentice The Implications of AIG Citigroup, AIG, and Peg Legs One Place to Go and One Place to Avoid Hold On, I’m Coming

Chapter 9 : Fixed-to-Float Bonds

The Camp Followers The Fixed-to-Float Opportunity Rumors of the Wizard in New York 2010—The Specifics On a Mission The Casting of Magic The Most Undervalued Bonds Play to Win

Chapter 10 : Grant’s Gambit

Grant’s Gambit Bearing the Scars of Battle Sailing Past the Statue of Liberty

Part III : Market Issues

Chapter 11 : Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers

The Bond Insurance Companies The Bet to Make! The Calm before the Storm A Requiem for Bear Stearns The Crisis Passes—The Issues Remain Devastation on Wall Street

Chapter 12 : The American Credit Crisis

Exaggerated Projections The Cost of the Window A Financial Crisis Is a Normal Event The Financial Crisis Just Nowhere to Hide A Time for Contemplation And Into the New Year The Lessons of a Financial Collapse

Chapter 13 : The Bailout

The Death of Logic and Proportion On the Waterfront Congress Understandably Balks We Have Now Pledged $4.7 Trillion Opportunity Knocks, Then Rings the Bell The Soap Opera As the World Turns

Part IV : The Great Game

Chapter 14 : Politics

The Squeeze Is On A Consideration of Political Risk Political Risk Knocks, Then Enters Just One Moment, Please Pact with the Devil The Inclusion of Political Risk A Look Back—Heroes and Villains Pay No Attention to What They Say The Wisdom of Jefferson

Chapter 15 : The Great Game

The Wizard’s Wishes for You The Hour of the Shire-Folk The Change of Rules Captain Hook at the Aegean Sea And on Every Note in Between Common Sense Dictates the Game Has Changed

Chapter 16 : You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . .

You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . . You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . . You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . . You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . . You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . . You Know You Work on Wall Street When . . .

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