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ISBN: B016FMYN2W
Language: English
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The #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures
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 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.
The #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures
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 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.
Search forThis is the story of the financial crash of 2007/2008, the subprime mortgage crisis, synthetic derivatives, tranches, credit default swaps (CDS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDO). A story of how Wall Street greed (and ignorance) almost crashed the US economy.
Michael Lewis has the wonderful ability to explain a complex process in terms that are easy to understand. He obviously has done a tremendous amount of research, interviewed a ton of people, and followed the story from the start to the present. He is a wonderful writer who can dissect the machinations of the financial markets with a razor sharp scalpel so that a layman can understand them.
Wall Street investment banking actually is just the world’s biggest casino. How is buying collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) any different from betting it all on Red 27 or Black 33 at the roulette wheel? In roulette, you actually have a chance of winning. These “financial instruments” were deliberately made as complicated as possible, and surrounded by financial jargon that you can’t understand unless you have Michael Lewis explain it to you.
This ultimately is a story of people, and Lewis sketches a cast of characters that are scarcely believable, except that they really exist, they’re real people. People who believed that housing prices will continue to increase forever, that no one will ever default on their mortgage, no matter how ridiculous the terms are.
Man's Search for Meaning
Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers ...
China's Search for Security
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The Search for the Picturesque
Arab Politics
An impressive work of scholarship on the political culture and changing society of the entire Arab world.
The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God
First published in 1988, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God is still considered by many scholars to be the finest work on the Arian Controversy.
Astonishing Hypothesis
Readers will come to appreciate the strength and dignity of Berneta Ringer, a true Western heroine as Doig celebrates his mother's life after finding a cache of her letters, photographs, and childhood writings.
The Search for Delicious
Gaylen, the King's twelve-year-old messenger, is sent off to poll the inhabitants of the kingdom as to which food should represent "delicious" in the new dictionary. Reissue.
Fighting Words
A professor of sociology explores how black feminist thought confronts the injustices of poverty and white supremacy, and argues that those operating outside the mainstream emphasize sociological themes based on assumptions different than ...
Sanctions and the Search for Security
Following on the publication of The Sanctions Decade - lauded as the definitive history and accounting of United Nations sanctions in the 1990s - David Cortright and George Lopez continue their collaboration to examine the changing context ...
German Resistance Against Hitler
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Wisdom, Compassion, and the Search for Understanding
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Diaspora, Memory and Identity
The essays in this volume reflect on the movements of people and cultures in the present day, when physical, social, and mental borders and boundaries are being challenged and sometimes successfully dismantled.
A Secret World
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Search for Identity
- A Word to the Reader, A Note From the Author, List of Abbreviations, Chapter 1: The Dynamic Nature of "Present Truth", Present Truth: Fluid Rather Than Static, The Avoidance of Creedal Rigidity, The Pathway of Progressive Understanding, ...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears
Goldilocks and the Water Bears is a tale of the origins and evolution of life, and the quest to find it on other planets, on moons, in other galaxies, and throughout the Universe.
The Search for Meaning
"In The Search for Meaning: A Short History Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe.
Japanese War Crimes
This collection, edited by Peter Li, undertakes the critical task of addressing some of the multifaceted and complex issues of Japanese war crimes, redress, and denial...".
Managing Capital Flows
Building on this analysis, the book presents options for workable national policies and regional policy cooperation, particularly in exchange rate management.
Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830
With examples from across Europe, this work will be of great value to all readers studying this period, whether in the humanities or the sciences.
Jury And The Search For Truth
; Joseph D. Grano, Wayne State U. Law School; Paul G. Cassell, U. of Utah College of Law; Michael McCann, DA, Milwaukee, WI; Carol S. Steiker, Harvard Law School; & Thomas Y. Davies, U. of Tenn. Coll. of Law.
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