The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0393072231
ISBN 13
9780393072235
Category
330-339 Economics
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Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Pages
288
Subject
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Abstract
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.
Description
Tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. This book takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the crisis. It introduces the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Nonfiction
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.).
Big short.
(OCoLC)1085906675
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9780393072235 0393072231 9781846142574 1846142571 0393338827 9780393338829 9780393353150 039335315X
OCLC Number: 317919864
Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2011
Description: xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: Prologue: Poltergeist --
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 --
Epilogue : Everything is correlated.
Responsibility: Michael Lewis.
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.).
Big short.
(OCoLC)1085906675
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9780393072235 0393072231 9781846142574 1846142571 0393338827 9780393338829 9780393353150 039335315X
OCLC Number: 317919864
Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2011
Description: xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: Prologue: Poltergeist --
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 --
Epilogue : Everything is correlated.
Responsibility: Michael Lewis.
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