As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come.

Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and investment instruments that we now take for granted, has prospered in every market for the past fifty years, particularly in today's bear market. In The Mind of Wall Street he recounts stories of his successes and failures to illustrate how investor psychology and willful self-deception so often play critical roles in the process.

随着股价和投资者信心在安然（Enron）、世通（WorldCom）和互联网公司（dot com）崩溃后崩溃，人们想知道这是如何发生的，以及如何理解未来的不确定时期。
华尔街传奇投资者之一利昂·利维（Leon Levy）也加入了这一漏洞，他解释了为什么市场总是让我们感到困惑，以及为什么那些应该理解市场的人往往会被咀嚼和吐出。利维是我们现在认为理所当然的许多创新和投资工具的先驱，在过去50年中，他在各个市场都取得了成功，特别是在今天的熊市中。在华尔街的心目中，他讲述了自己成功和失败的故事，以说明投资者心理和故意自欺欺人在这一过程中往往扮演着关键角色。