TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Michael TI - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine SN - 0393338827 (pbk.) AV - HC106.83 .L5 2011 U1 - 330.973 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton, 2011 KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - History KW - 21st century KW - sears KW - Economic conditions KW - 2001-2009 KW - ENG KW - May2011 KW - BestSellers N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -