The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
W. W. Norten & Company, 2010, [First Edition], ISBN 9780393072235, hardcover, dustjacket
Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, no inscriptions; dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing, bumping and chipping to edges and corners (see photographs)
“When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge I the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to read: the bond and real estate derivative markets were geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower – and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.”