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Book

The big short : inside the doomsday machine

Call Number

  • 330.973 L6752 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.

Physical Description

xviii, 266 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible--the free fall of the American economy--finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.

Contents

  • 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.

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