Bestselling author Jim Cramer takes readers on a wild Wall Street
ride--revealing how to play the game, who breaks the rules, and who gets
hurt.
Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street
better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall
Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com,
radio and television commentator, and for years a premier money manager,
takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street -- revealing how the
game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.
Confessions of a Street Addict takes us from Cramer's roots in the
middle-class Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing
money, and then to Goldman Sachs, where he went into business with his
wife -- Karen, the "Trading Goddess" -- as his partner. He brilliantly
describes the life of a money manager: the frenetic pace, the constant
pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the
sharklike attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to
be in trouble.
Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, offering his
hard-won insights about the market and everyone in it, himself included.
There has never been a more eloquent market insider than Cramer, nor a
more high-octane book about Wall Street.
