The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Liar's Poker #2

Michael Lewis

266 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business economics informative tense fast-paced
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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? Michae...

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