1 Going Short Irrational Emotions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Driving Forces of Markets and Morality
7. 1 Going Short Irrational Emotions 7
8. 2 Philosophy in Omaha 18
9. Part II: Profiting from Skepticism and Cynicism
10. 3 Net-Net Skepticism 29
11. 4 Lottery Arbitrage 40
12. 5 Luck of the Draw 52
13. Part III: Market Abstraction and Investor Identity
14. 6 The Limits of Abstraction 61
15. 7 Beware of Carnival Mirrors 70
16. 8 Grasping for Investor Identity 83
17. Part IV: Money Mindsets and Market Meaning
18. 9 The Anxiety of Having Money 97
19. 10 Avoiding Despair on Wall Street 106
20. 11 The Sleeping Giant 117
21. Part V: Relation in the Face of Market Adaptation
22. 12 Saying No to Madoff 127
23. 13 Our Fight for Market Mastery 137
24. Epilogue/Conclusion 145
25. Notes 147
26. Bibliography 159
27. Index 167