Lawrence G. McDonald
Author and former Lehman trader
Lawrence G. McDonald is a former Lehman Brothers trader and the founder of The Bear Traps Report. He co-wrote A Colossal Failure of Common Sense about Lehman's collapse.
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Born in Lowell, United States
About Lawrence G. McDonald
Lawrence G. McDonald is a New York Times bestselling author who founded The Bear Traps Report, an investment newsletter and advisory platform. He has contributed to CNBC and was previously Head of U.S. Macro Strategy at Societe Generale. He traded distressed debt and convertible securities at Lehman Brothers as a vice president, from July 2004 to September 2008. Earlier, he co-founded the website Convertbond.com, which was sold to Morgan Stanley, and worked as a financial adviser for individual investors. With co-author Patrick Robinson, he wrote A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, published by Random House in July 2009. The book made the bestseller list of the New York Times in the week it came out. His book How to Listen When Markets Speak is also in the BookBits catalog.