Book Notes: More Money Than God

Chapter 9:

• Russian financial crisis, doing dd on the ground to realise that palladium was actually being extracted from missiles
• Asian finacial crisis, how they got the Thai official to admit that the Baht was undefendable
• Stan putting a smaller bet on the Baht than they could have
• Stan borrowing Baht at a long term interest rate whereas copy traders did short term borrowing that was made very expensive by the Thai’s keeping interest rates high
• Soros struggling with being demonised: Soros the trader and Soros the intellectual
• Wikipedia - Asian Financial Crisis