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Wed 06 Jun 2010Clever, engaging analysis offers backstage pass to billion-dollar world of hedge funds
AIDAN KANEreviews More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New EliteBy Sebastian Mallaby, Bloomsbury, 463pp £25
THEY ARE locusts, hyenas, vultures, or sharks, depending on which dark niche in the ecosystem of capitalism your nightmares lurk. Or they are barbarian hordes, sweeping down to scythe through the peace of pious central bankers to whom the villagers run for protection; they are Visigoths with spreadsheets. They are the hedge funds, and resistance is futile.
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