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dreamscape42's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
tense
medium-paced
3.75
jon_auc's review against another edition
4.0
A well-written explanation of how the 2008 financial collapse occurred, told through the stories of a handful of investors who saw the disaster coming. Much like Lewis accomplished with the advanced sabermetrics (baseball analysis formulas) included in his book "Moneyball," here he clearly explains what mortgaged-backed sub-prime loans and CDOs and how they let to ultimate doom. Perfect for a financial layperson as myself to understand.
odie192's review against another edition
4.0
Michael Lewis has done an excellent job in talking about how the banking system has failed, very good read.
jonlewis's review against another edition
5.0
If this book doesn't make you homicidal then nothing will. Lewis covers how disparate groups of (and some individual) investors were able to see the 2007 financial meltdown. He does an excellent job explaining the dry, technical jargon that is necessary to understand all of the mess and breaks everything down to expose the root cause of the crisis. The truly infruiating part about the whole damn thing is how everyone, the people that saw it coming and the morons responsible for it, came out of the situation disgustingly rich.