The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine /
Lewis, Michael
The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine / Michael Lewis. - First edition - 264 pages 24 cm.
A secret origin story -- In the land of the blind -- "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?" -- How to harvest a migrant worker -- Accidental capitalists -- Spider-man at the Venetian -- The great treasure hunt -- The long quiet -- A death of interest -- Two men in a boat.
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.
9780393072235 (hardcover)
2010004804
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises--History--United States--21st century.
United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
HC106.83 / .L5 2010
330.973
The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine / Michael Lewis. - First edition - 264 pages 24 cm.
A secret origin story -- In the land of the blind -- "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?" -- How to harvest a migrant worker -- Accidental capitalists -- Spider-man at the Venetian -- The great treasure hunt -- The long quiet -- A death of interest -- Two men in a boat.
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.
9780393072235 (hardcover)
2010004804
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises--History--United States--21st century.
United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
HC106.83 / .L5 2010
330.973