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The Great
Wall Street
Swindle

by JIM SALIM with
R. FOSTER WINANS

Readers say: "Written like a novel, with plenty of absurdity, outrage, passion, and honest information about how Wall Street really works."

This is the story, told in narrative fashion, of a four decades long investing career like none you've ever heard, covering all the scams you've seen in the news and some that were never discovered, complete with a murder-for-hire, cameos by some of Wall Street's biggest legends, and the bold swindle of some $50 million from Jim Salim by supposedly blue-chip investment bankers at Credit Suisse First Boston.

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Jim Salim grew up in 1950s Louisiana, son of a prudent father, a successful crop duster and first generation Lebanese immigrant, who taught his son to go slow in life. But Jim was a roadrunner and you can’t tell a roadrunner to go slow. From the moment he first saw a copy of The Wall Street Journal in a trash can, when he was ten years old, he has had a love affair with the markets.

From these modest roots he made his first million by age 27. By age 29 he was broke. He recovered, fine-tuning his trading skills, becoming a stalking horse for some of Wall Street's legends, making and losing a couple more fortunes along the way, and then, in 1998, losing the big one to a couple of sharp investment bankers.

This book is the story of his investing career, and that swindle.

Salim lives in Dallas with his wife, MaryAnn, where he continues to actively trade the markets.