Date Published: October 2, 2018 Format: Print Source: Library Date Read: May 9-10, 2019 Blurb What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by it...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis book felt like it took me an insanely long time to read. I started out trying to figure out word-for-word what happened. After a while, I kind of gave up on understanding it all. Luckily, Lewis seemed to support this with a general attitude of don...
I really had no idea about HFT (high-frequency trading), let alone "dark pools," but nonetheless, appreciated Michael Lewis's telling of a disaffected group of finance guys looking to devise a new stock market immune from the loopholes that allow insiders to game the system, to the detriment of the ...
A little over a month ago, I attended a conference (I work in continuing medical education). One of my favorite sessions was on psychology and behavioral economics. By serendipity, concepts from the session are showing up in books I read/listen to. Peak-end rule and elements of decision theory sh...
This was a fun read for those baseball fans that are bewildered by how baseball teams build and manage said teams. My husband enjoys watching the Oakland A's, which is the subject of this book; but like other Lewis' works, this one is more about the culture and industry than just the this one team. ...
This was a real page turner. Lewis takes the reader back to the late 70s and all through the 80s and tells the story of one "rogue" investment bank, Salomon Brothers, Inc. There is a big section of this rather short (249 pages) book that is devoted all to Lewis Rainrie and his newly conceived mortga...
I wanted to read this book for a couple of reasons: 1) I loved the movie, 2) I am an avid student of financial stuff - I am a big fan of certain anchors/reporters from CNBC and Bloomburg channels, 3) I needed a book to fill in a bingo square "adapted for the big screen". ONE BIG CAVEAT to reading ...
Great book detailing how High Frequency Trading (HFT) is scalping ordinary investors, penny by penny. What The Big Short (Lewis' last book) did for the bond community, this books does to the stock/equity community. You do need a basic grasp of investing concepts and lingo to understand what Lewis is...
The Big Short by Michael Lewis Achievement unlocked: I finally understand what the term "shorting" actually means. Lewis provides a thorough and interesting take on the financial crisis, and now I think I finally begin to understand what caused the world economy to tank. As Lewis notes, there was ...
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 real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to t...
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