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The greatest trade ever is the thrilling story of the trader john paulson who predicted the economic crash in 2008- and made the biggest windfall in history by gregory zuckerman. Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John paulson a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and the greatest trade ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity. John paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it. 'the definitive account of a sensational trade' michael lewis author of the big short'extraordinary excellent' observer'a must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madness' mail on sunday'a forensic read-in-one-sitting boo