Lewis has written the best book I know of about the financial catastrophe by bringing us close to the deluded and duplicitous minds that caused it. So powerful is the tale Lewis tells of self-interest run amok that perhaps it will help awaken the nation to the basic truth that some individuals were indeed responsible for what happened, and had they been stopped by adequate regulation and enforcement, the speculative fires could have been brought under control. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Big Short by Michael Lewis, read by Jesse Boggs and the author. Lewis’s deep burrowing gets to the essence of Wall Street companies blinded by easy, short-term profit and uninhibited by any moral scruples or external government watchdog. My book was mainly about the bond market, because Wall Street was now making even bigger money packaging and selling and shuffling around Americas growing. Brush up on the details in this novel, in a voice that wont put you to sleep. Through these contrarians, he untangles in depth the sources of the crisis in ways that none of the recent literature on the subject has matched. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis chapter summaries. Lewis, whose first book, Liar’s Poker, was a revealing insider’s account of the beginnings of the new mortgage markets, decided to find out what the handful of people who did 'stand apart from mass hysteria' understood that others didn’t.
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