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alext2000's review against another edition
3.0
Following Jeeves in procession was a team of small, tubular dogs, called Corgis, which looked like large rats. The English think Corgis are cute. The British Royals, I was later told, never go anywhere without them.
Did not think this would be my favourite line in a book on 80s bond trading.
jtrogers1992's review against another edition
4.0
Cannot believe this was Michael Lewis’ first book. Such an engaging story of something that should be boring and a great prequel to the 2008 financial crisis. Def recommend reading with The Big Short.
angus_mckeogh's review against another edition
3.0
If you were disgusted by the excess of Wall Street in the 80's (and since) and are fed up with the imaginary profits that explode out of this sector. Then reading this will just make you angrier. But entertaining nonetheless.
n_ck's review against another edition
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4.25
A very fun look into 80s Wall Street, a den of pure evil. Lewis has a gift for drawing out the personalities and ironies of the traders on the floor at Salomon Bros. Its age has benefited as many of its protagonists are implicated in later dirty dealings, not the least of which the 08 financial crisis. It gives all the happy go lucky power jockeying and pranks a foreboding, doomed air that I really enjoyed.
fbroom's review against another edition
3.0
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It’s the 1980s. Michael Lewis a bonds trader at Salomon Brothers writes about the his experience starting from his first day the company. He talks about the company culture, his colleagues, some of the key executives in the company. He describes the 41st trading floor at Salomon Brothers and how everyone interacted with each other. he gives a little history of how mortgages became ridiculously profitable in the 1980s, how young traders at the beginning of their careers were making seven figures salaries on Wall Street and how all of that came to an end by the late 1980s.
It is an interesting memoir but it is also boring at times. I feel like Michael keeps repeating some of the stuff over and over again.