From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award® winners Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei; Academy Award® nominees Steve Carell and … and Ryan Gosling.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. 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? In this fitting sequel to Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis answers that question in a narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor.
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If Michael Lewis didn’t exist, you’d have to invent him.
His role as Wall Street’s representative on Earth, letting us mere mortals know what the masters of the universe are (or have been) doing, is essential. In fact, his role goes wider than that: as you learn in the book, most Wall Street bosses didn’t know what had been going on in their own …
Wonderful expose and commentary on our (still) current economic systems.
The movie took poetic license merging some , ignoring others but the book has depth and breadth the movie lacks. The remarkable side of those who refused to believe prevailing wisdom and bet their professional lives while the lemmings that failed to look almost lost it all.
I know it’s a cliché, but this book literally changed my life!
I spent four years in college and three years post college preparing for, and desiring to have, a Wall Street career. This book made me rethink and ultimately abandon that goal. Michael Lewis shows perfectly how slimy money-hungry bankers are.
If you’ve only seen the movie, it did …
Everything he writes should be read.