The big short

inside the doomsday machine

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The big short

inside the doomsday machine

1st ed.
  • 4.7 (9 ratings) ·
  • 65 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.

When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, 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.

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.

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2010, Penguin Publishing
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The big short: inside the doomsday machine
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The big short: inside the doomsday machine
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in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The big short
The big short: inside the doomsday machine
2010, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed.
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The big short: inside the doomsday machine
2010, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
330.973
Library of Congress
HC106.83 .L5 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24098770M
ISBN 13
9780393072235
LCCN
2010004804

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