The big short inside the doomsday machine
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.
| Main Author: | Lewis, Michael |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of 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.