Name: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
ISBN: 9780393338829

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

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The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a 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 time.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2011
Pages: 320
Language: English
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Dimensions: 8.21in - 5.60in - 0.81in - 0.56lb
EAN: 9780393338829
Categories: • Economic Conditions• United States - 21st Century• Economic History

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About the Author

Lewis, Michael: - Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

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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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No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects' stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision....Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market.--Michiko Kakutani "The New York Times"

Superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance. . . . Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again.--Andrew Leonard "Salon.com"

One of the best business books of the past two decades.--Malcolm Gladwell "New York Times Book Review"

I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like.--Malcolm Gladwell "New York Times Book Review"

What people are saying

Scott Patterson

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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.

Cryptocurrencies, crypto-business, #cryptoexchange, #cryptocurrency, #btc, #ethereum, #usdt, #cryptonews, #newsmaker

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