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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Jesse Boggs, Michael Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
The long-awaited follow-up to the global best-seller Liar's Poker, The Big Short tells a story of spectacular, epic folly.
It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international best seller Liar's Poker exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts.
In this visceral tour to the heart of the money-making machine, Michael Lewis traces the origins of the crisis and introduces us to a new cast of compulsively fascinating characters. We meet the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel, and others who were actively driving us all off the cliff. Where did it all start? How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Did it really have to be this way? And who the hell can we blame? Michael Lewis has the answers.
No one is better qualified to reveal the dark truths about how our world really works. No one else could make it such an enjoyable ride along the way.
This edition includes a prologue read by the author, plus an exclusive author interview.
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- Ryan Black
- 29-04-19
Fantastic
Bought the book and the audiobook. Fantastic read couldn’t recommend it enough, movie was great book is even better.
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- Russell
- 18-03-11
Understanding what went wrong
After listening to the Big Short I now understand the difference between a CDO (Collateralised Debt Obligation), a CDS (Credit Default Swap) and an MBS (Mortgage Backed Security). If you are interested in the workings of financial markets then this book can only be described as gripping. I cannot recommend it too highly.
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- Mr. B. J. Read
- 25-03-24
A true modern classic
Fascinating and incredibly well told story of the 2008 financial crisis told from the point of view of several small groups of people who saw through the sham of sub-prime mortgage bonds and collateralised debt obligations and bet against them, along with the greedy and unethical - if not outright fraudulent and manipulative - institutions that were pushing them. Does a great job of making the financial crisis make sense and demystifying so much of the jargon used to talk about it - turns out, it’s not so hard to understand after all.
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- Joe
- 16-10-11
Complex but enjoyable
If you can get your head around complex wall street 'financial speak' such as synthetic CDO's and credit default swaps then this book is a revelation. Or at least it was for me; I thought the banks had been irresponsible now I know they are downright corrupt. The great irony is that they made these complex financial models to hide the risk but the models became so complex that they didn't understand them themselves.
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- Ruth Kennedy
- 25-03-16
Stunning Story Well Told
This is not only a gripping narrative, it's beautifully written and voiced also. Get it!
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- Sahajesh
- 04-01-16
Great story, gets bogged down in places
Great narrator and story - it does get a bit too technical at times but rewind and a bit of a think helps.
Unless you work in an investment bank, you'll be very angry at how the US Government failed beforehand and then continued to do so in the recovery work.
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- Marc
- 18-05-17
Brilliant
will need to listen to it again but OMG what a great insight into the madness we live in!!
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- Jim
- 03-10-11
Genius; buy it
Fascinating, well informed, closely argued. Having read it you'll be better informed, probably much angrier than when you started and in my case, a lot more thoughful about the role that we as voters played in consenting to this
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- Bennet Foreman
- 15-09-19
I could listen to it again.. such an epic tale
I'd have said it was a story of fiction if I didn't know it was all true.. greed and stupidity - they're always up there, regardless of your wealth or position!
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- Dan
- 29-12-19
Fascinating look at the 2008 financial crisis and those who made big money off it.
It takes a lot of dedication to properly understand some of the concepts in this book, but they are well broken down so that anyone with the patience to listen can understand what is going on.
The only annoying part of this book is the insistence of the narrator to pronounce finance as fuh-nance, with an emphasis on the second syllable. If you can get past that, you’ll be fine.
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