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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s. It was released on March 15, 2010, by W. W. Norton & Company.
- Michael Lewis
- 2010
The Big Short is an account of the guys who made a killing as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia and other less renowned banking and investment names were being sucked down the tubes by the mega-leveraging of overvalued derivative paper.
- (15.4K)
- $21.73
- Michael Lewis
- WW Norton
Mar 15, 2010 · A nonfiction book that exposes the causes and consequences of the 2008 financial crisis in the US. It follows the stories of a few investors who bet against the subprime mortgage market and the Wall Street banks that created and sold toxic assets.
- (161.3K)
- Paperback
Feb 1, 2011 · The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."―Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair.
- Michael Lewis
- $12.23
- W. W. Norton & Company
Feb 1, 2011 · In The Big Short, Moneyball author Michael Lewis tracks these long-festering events with precise details and macabre wit, revealing how self-serving myopia and naked greed fueled the most catastrophic economic crisis since the Great Depression.
- 9780.4B
- 02/01/2011
- 320
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
The #1 New York Times bestseller: 'It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading.'—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair , The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis, 9780393338829
Jan 27, 2011 · From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.
