Bond King
Bond King From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever.Before Bill Gross was known among investors as…
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Bond King
From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever.Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards.
Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today's most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession--to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along