Product Description

Tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. This book takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the crisis. It introduces the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59722 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-15
• Released on: 2010-03-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

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Review
There aren't many reasons to be happy about the global financial crisis, but here's one: that it brought Michael Lewis back to his roots, to produce what is probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written (Felix Salmon Reuters )

Each chapter is full of the kind of dialogue you do not hear even in the best-written Hollywood films ... Lewis is back (John Arlidge Sunday Times )

No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis (Michiko Kakutani New York Times )

Hugely entertaining (Economist )

If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis's, The Big Short (Steven Pearlstein Washington Post )

The Big Short is superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance ... But what truly sets Michael Lewis apart from other writers is his craft ... the end result is devastating (Salon )

Eagerly anticipated ... A triumph ... Lewis builds the tension of this tug-of-war expertly, so much so that The Big Short reads like a thriller (Antonia Senior Times )

Lewis creates magnificent financial set-pieces (James Buchan Guardian )

Lewis is hugely entertaining ... a terrifying story, superbly well told (David Flusfeder Daily Telegraph )

About the Author
Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the New York Times bestseller, Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. Lewis is contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. He is married with three children.