The Counting House

The Chief Funding Officer of a prestigious college sits on the heart of contemporary finance: a whole bunch of hedge funds, enterprise capitalists, inventory pickers, bond merchants, and personal fairness managers go to him yearly, asking for cash.
 
He helms the engine room of the trendy academy: the six-billion-dollar endowment he presides over permits the varsity to compete for college students, school, status, ethical function―and solvency. The CIO is a winner in bourgeois America’s highest dream: “doing properly by doing good.”
 
After which all that he thinks he understands―about investing, about his personal skills, about each selection and non-choice that introduced his life to the place it’s―begins to crumble. At first, slowly, amid countless fascinating conversations along with his workers, his wildly proficient (and typically hilarious) trustees, and the motley cash managers that march by his workplace. After which rapidly, in an epic showdown with a reclusive, legendary hedge fund supervisor, his college’s richest and most stingy billionaire alumnus.
 
With its wry appreciation for the absurd, The Counting Home lays declare to the title of funniest novel about American enterprise. Beneath the humor, nonetheless, is an unprecedented, essential story of the interior lifetime of investing: a narrative that reveals how the workings of our day by day lives relaxation upon the market’s unforgiving truths.
Writer ‏ : ‎ College of New Orleans Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 14, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1608012530
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1608012534
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
Finest Sellers Rank: #179,922 in Books (See High 100 in Books) #466 in Political Fiction (Books) #2,003 in Fiction Satire #5,933 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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