The Big Short
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."?Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair The real story of the crash began 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. Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker . Out of a 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 time
eBook, English, 2011
W.W. Norton & Company, [Place of publication not identified], 2011
1 online resource
9780393078190, 0393078191
1002097630
Intro
Also by Michael Lewis
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue Poltergeist
Chapter 1 A Secret Origin Story
Chapter 2 In the Land of the Blind
Chapter 3 "How Can a Guy Who Can't Speak English Lie?"
Chapter 4 How to Harvest a Migrant Worker
Chapter 5 Accidental Capitalists
Chapter 6 Spider-Man at The Venetian
Chapter 7 The Great Treasure Hunt
Chapter 8 The Long Quiet
Chapter 9 A Death of Interest
Chapter 10 Two Men in a Boat
Epilogue Everything Is Correlated
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
Praise for The Big Short