The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine / Michael Lewis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2011 2011.Description: xviii, 291 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0393338827 (pbk.)
- 9780393338829 (pbk.)
- 330.973 23 LEW
- HC106.83 .L5 2011
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330.973 BAR The cost of capitalism : understanding market mayhem and stabilizing our economic future / | 330.973 ECO Brookings Papers on Economic Activity2 1976 / | 330.973 KEN The Affluent Society / | 330.973 LEW The Big Short : | 330.973 SLA Economics / | 330.973 SLA Economics / | 330.973 SLA Economics / |
"With a new afterword"--Cover.
Includes index.
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.
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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