Books by Michael Lewis
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review 1: Good book, but one thing in particular bothered me - it's a story about complicated, fast financial maneuvering that is invisible at certain levels of scale, and yet it has no graphics or charts that help show this, even when there's a scene where one of the people in the story n...
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review 1: Employing bold candour and brazen wit, Michael Lewis regales his reader about the new culture spawning the financial spectrum across the globe - a culture of uninhibited and vulgar greed. Manifesting itself in myriad ways such as Leveraged Buy Outs ("LBO"); collaterised mortgages...
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review 1: Accessible and fascinating explanation of what the deuce led to/caused the housing/economic meltdown in 2008. Powered by the stories of a few key players who saw this all coming, I come away feeling like I have a good understanding of the situation, though no reassurance that tho...
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review 1: I'm not sure how it's possible to read this book and not get really angry and frustrated with the state of the financial system. I realize this was written over 25 years ago, but the parallels and attitudes shown in this book bear an uncanny resemblance to things we read and stil...