The Greatest Trade Ever

How John Paulson Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion

By Gregory Zuckerman (2009)

John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it. John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realized that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 Billion for...