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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393072231
ISBN-139780393072235
eBay Product ID (ePID)72656112
Product Key Features
Book TitleBig Short : inside the Doomsday Machine
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEconomic History, Finance / General, Journalism, Economic Conditions
Publication Year2010
GenreBusiness & Economics, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorMichael Lewis
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-004804
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsI've joined a lot of other people in just finishing Michael Lewis's book, The Big Short, and it's really an eye-opener of what was going on at the time that this real estate bubble was created., 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., If you're wondering if there's importance or an urgency to this issue, read the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis, and then, when you're finished reading, come back to the floor and say that you support this amendment [on financial reform]., [A] strikingly original take that offers an enhanced understanding of the debacle....Since his first book, Liar's Poker, Lewis has tackled big, engaging stories...by finding and developing characters whose personal narratives reveal a larger truth. He's done it again., 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., 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., It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading.
Dewey Edition22
Target AudienceTrade
Dewey Decimal338.542
SynopsisWhen 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., 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., 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., 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.
Lc Classification NumberHc106.83.L5 2010
Copyright Date2010
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- 02. Mär. 2025
Title doesn't say enough about the story of the 2008 Housing Market SET-UP Crash.
Fantastic book, I highly recommend it !Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 17. Nov. 2020
This tome will help in understanding what goes down when history is ignored.
The book arrived ahead of schedule.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Jun. 2016
Saw the movie, then obught the book !
A must read for those that want to undestand what fools we all were..Lol. PeteBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Jun. 2017
fastenating, but intricate and complicated
Half way in, way over my head, but informative. Well writtenBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Apr. 2020
Excellent book
Compelling and informative view of the actual trading world of Wall Street!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 15. Feb. 2022
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Great book documenting the disastrous Democrat policy under Clinton mandating everyone should own a home.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 13. Jul. 2021
Great condition
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- 05. Mai. 2016
movie was better
I work in the mortgage industry so I was curious about the story. Movie was better and easier to follow.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 29. Nov. 2016
Interesting from front page to back.
This book serves as a superior introduction to the 2008 stock market crash and the material is delivered through incredibly interesting stories of men who were in the middle of it all. To someone not familiar with securities trading it may be a bit confusing at first but leaves no questions unanswered in the end. I would highly recommend to anyone.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 17. Mär. 2017
great exciting read
It will make you smarter while entertaining you.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
