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...used his hedge fund to take over Kmart and Sears, then funneled the stores' cash flow into derivatives trades--which last quarter made $101 million, half the company's net income. Nelson Peltz used his to storm onto the board of H.J. Heinz. "By many different definitions," says William Goetzmann, professor of finance at Yale School of Management, "we're seeing the institutionalization of hedge funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Hedge Funds | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

That is just one of the stories colorfully told and illustrated in The Origins of Value (Oxford), edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. The two economic historians turn what could have been a bone-dry survey of arcane financial instruments into a lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Really Old Money | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

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