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ISBN
0393027503
EAN
9780393027501
Book Title
Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreck Age on Wall Street
Item Length
9.5 in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
1989
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.9 in
Author
Michael Lewis
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Topic
Investments & Securities / Bonds, Finance / General, Workplace Culture, Investments & Securities / General, Business
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries.The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393027503
ISBN-13
9780393027501
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59687

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Book Title
Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreck Age on Wall Street
Author
Michael Lewis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Investments & Securities / Bonds, Finance / General, Workplace Culture, Investments & Securities / General, Business
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hg4928.5.L48 1989
Reviews
Lewis has a gift for the rapid portrait. Unless you find his flippant one-liners irritating, it is a pleasure to be guided around the jungle of bond markets by his reminiscences and trenchant asides. . . . Apart from the belly-laughs, one of the triumphs of Liar's Poker is that it makes the financial complexities of investment banking and the markets accessible to the layman. . . . Everything from yields to selling short is painlessly clarified in the course of the narrative., Lewis takes the reader through his schoolboy's progress as trainee and geek in the trading room, to high-powered swashbuckler. The author has a puckish appreciation for the comic. Yet he also has the knack of explaining precisely how complex deals really work. He provides the most readable explanation I've seen anywhere of the origin within Salomon Brothers of the mortgage-backed securities market....It is good history, and a good story.
Lccn
89-030819
Dewey Decimal
332.6/2/0973
Dewey Edition
20

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  • by justhagoodstuff
    May 10, 2009

    An insider's look at the daily gamble that is Wall St.

    Great book! Written in 1989, but it could have been written in 2009. An insider's look into the world of international multi-billion dollar investments banks, their corporate culture and the extreme risks that they take with your money on a daily basis. If your interested in learning about the events that led to the recent housing/financial collapse and why it is destined to repeat itself time and time again, then this is the book for you. An entertaining and informative read, best suited for people with some investment/banking knowledge, but light enough throughout to be understood by many others as well. Check it out! You won't be disappointed.

  • by lostephe-0
    Mar 02, 2022

    nice

    great book

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

  • by joh_roj_fgd4qsc
    Apr 17, 2022

    Good read

    Story about 1987 stock market

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by gavrickgoods
    May 20, 2024

    Great thank you so much

    Great thank you so much

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: mtwyouth

  • by scoutdog1217
    Dec 07, 2007

    Learn about mortgage-backed securities...and laugh

    This is a hilarious look at one man's journey to Wall Street. He describes the birth of the mortgage backed security industry from the inside at the company the created it. These are the same securities deemed near worthless in our current "housing crisis." And laugh your ass off at the same time. Learn about jungle guides, "The Shark," and other hilarious tidbits from inside one of Wall Street's biggest firms.

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