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Lewis, Michael

 
9780393072235: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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ISBN 10 : 0393072231 ISBN 13 : 9780393072235
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Synopsis

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: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.

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? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar's Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely--really unlikely--heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393072231
ISBN 13 
9780393072235
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780393338829: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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ISBN 10 :  0393338827 ISBN 13 :  9780393338829
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
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