Billion Dollar Whale

Posted on 20 July 2018 by Tom Wright

An epic true tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how a young social climber pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history right under the nose of the global financial industry exposing the shocking secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad was setting in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system Billion Dollar Whale will become a classic, harrowing parable about the financial world in the twenty first century. Download Billion Dollar Whale Author Tom Wright – kino-fada.fr Being a Malaysian and trying to come up with a perfectly objective review is impossible when it hit so close to home Nothing against to the wonderful people who contributed to this publication But there has never have been a book that filled me with so much rage and disgust Therefore, I shall not self censor myself to the barrage of insults that I shall unleash Because at this moment, I am too sober and too angry to be nice.Billion Dollar Whale is a very readable and well written condensatio Being a Malaysian and trying to come up with a perfectly objective review is impossible when it hit so close to home Nothing against to the wonderful people who contributed to this publication But there has never have been a book that filled me with so much rage and disgust Therefore, I shall not self censor myself to the barrage of insults that I shall unleash Because at this moment, I am too sober and too angry to be nice.Billion Dollar Whale is a very readable and well written condensation of the decade long kleptocratic 1Malaysia Development Berhad scam that centered around one pathetic greedy moron called Jho Low The spoiled cowardly manchild who came from a moderately rich family of Penang who dreamed of fame and luxury By sheer luck and his connections to those of wealth and fortune, he became a self made crazy rich Asian billionaire Of course, none of it would have happened if Mr Low hadn t surround...If you have never followed the 1MDB scandal closely, you should read this to catch up If you are bored and looking for a good thriller, you should read this book If you are Malaysian you should read this book If you work ...Its hard to put down this book, as if the stories were fantasies The heist commited by Jho Low is definitely bigger than Bernie Maddoff ponzi scheme, well at least Bernie s inverstors got their profits back.Jho Low represents a desperate figure who wants companionship, recognition and love even if it is fake through money His acts, cowardly hidi...Bad Blood meets Crazy Rich AsiansSince the publication of All The President s Men, Barbarians At The Gate and Too Big To Fail, there have been few books of this genre that have gripped the imagination of the reader until the arrival of Billion Dollar Whale A whale is a high rolling gambler who consistently wagers large amounts of money High rollers often receive lavish comps from casinos to lure them onto the gambling floors, such as free private jet transfers, limousine use and use of the casinos best suites.Acclaimed Since the publication of All The President s Men, Barbarians At The Gate and Too Big To Fail, there have been few books of this genre that have gripped the imagination of the reader until the arrival of Billion Dollar Whale A whale is a high rolling gambler who consi...Absolutely riveting It plays out like a train wreck you can t tear your eyes away from. happening in slow motion with the ppl of Malaysia being the casualties How everything happened is just unfathomable.In Wall Street 2 Gordon Gekko tells Shia Laboeuf I forgot character name A fisherman always sees a fisherman from afar which basically means it takes one, to know one Thus we learn midway through Billion Dollar Whale that one of the 1st to spot that Jho Low was a fraud and was playing with stolen money was Jordan Belfort aka The Wolf of Wall Street Ironically, Jho Low was the one who bankrolled the Leo DiCaprio movie about Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street Billion Dollar Whale BDW In Wall Street 2 Gordon Gekko tells Shia Laboeuf I forgot character n...Heart breaking, riveting read How millions were robbed and so casually spent, with no consequence.It was fascinating to see how the haves live their lives off the backs of the have nots.Billion Dollar Whale is an engrossing and infuriating saga of theft and waste on an incomprehensible scale Just reflecting on the magnitude of frittering away of billions BILLIONS of dollars sets my blood pressure skyrocketing If you want further specifics regarding the details of the book, you will find them in some of the detailed reviews below In short, this book rivals Bad Blood as the book on corporate malfeasance for 2018.Despite Enron and despite the 2007 financial crisis, you Billion Dollar Whale is an engrossing and infuriating saga of theft and waste on an incomprehensible scale Just reflecting on the magnitude of fritte...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here As an aspiring investigative journalist, I am so impressed with the amount of hard work, time, effort and determination put into writing this book I have the highest levels of respect for both Wright and Hope I have yet to write anything remotely this explosive, so I can only imagine the number of long hours, and courage it must have taken to pen this.As an English major, there are parts where I feel could have been written better Some sections became a bit draggy, but I had to remind myself As an aspiring investigative journalist, I am so impressed with the amount of hard work, time, effort and determination put into writing this book I have the highest levels of respect for both Wright and Hope I have yet to write anything remotely this explosive, so I can only imagine the number of long hours, and courage it must have taken to pen this.As an English major, there are parts where I feel could have been written better Some sections became a bit draggy, but I had to remind myself that this is non fiction Facts are facts, and sometimes facts can be a bit draggy and boring.As a Malaysian, I am appalled, and even that is an understatement Having been born to parents who work extremely hard to provide for our family, it was painful to look at all the money that could have been channeled into improvin...

20 July 2018

Tom Wright