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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar's Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely--really unlikely--heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2010
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.17in - 6.34in - 1.05in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780393072235
- Categories: • Economic Conditions• United States - 21st Century• Economic History
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WSJ investigative reporter focused on climate tech and all things energy. Author of The Quants, Dark Pools, and Chaos Kings. DM for Signal.
Chaos Kings is an “illuminating investigation…The author has a knack for translating complicated financial maneuvers into easily comprehensible terms…Detailed yet accessible, this will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short.” —@PublishersWkly https://t.co/sCDIrZLi24
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WSJ investigative reporter focused on climate tech and all things energy. Author of The Quants, Dark Pools, and Chaos Kings. DM for Signal.
Chaos Kings is an “illuminating investigation…The author has a knack for translating complicated financial maneuvers into easily comprehensible terms…Detailed yet accessible, this will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short.” —@PublishersWkly https://t.co/sCDIrZLi24
Cryptocurrencies, crypto-business, #cryptoexchange, #cryptocurrency, #btc, #ethereum, #usdt, #cryptonews, #newsmaker
#cryptoexchange #FTX #CoinTelegraph #ContinueReading #Fall #GoingInfinite #CryptoNews ‘Big Short’ author Michael Lewis almost ready to publish book on SBF Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and Moneyball: … https://t.co/19WtUuYurg