The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis.
2010
HC106.83 .L5 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis.
Author
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393072235
0393072231
0393072231
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 266 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HC106.83 .L5 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.973
Summary
The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.
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Table of Contents
A secret origin story
In the land of the blind
"How can a guy who can't speak English lie?"
How to harvest a migrant worker
Accidental capitalists
Spider-man at the Venetian
The great treasure hunt
The long quiet
A death of interest
Two men in a boat.
In the land of the blind
"How can a guy who can't speak English lie?"
How to harvest a migrant worker
Accidental capitalists
Spider-man at the Venetian
The great treasure hunt
The long quiet
A death of interest
Two men in a boat.