Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to gove
rnor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his re
putation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this
honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led t
o Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad fi
nancial practices in several economic sectors.