The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in 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 shin...
The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in 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 tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where 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.
The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar’s Poker . Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely—really unlikely—heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.
老师推荐的课外读物《The Big Short》（中文译名大空头），英文原著（2010 by Michael Lewis）和中文译本（何正云翻译的）都读了，对应的电影（亚当·麦凯在2015执导的）也看了。很有意思，强烈推荐。书中讲述了四路华尔街的人马在2008年次贷危机前，靠自己对住房次贷市场与经...
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too big to fail没有讲明白的故事，the big short基本上讲给出了答案。too big to fail写的更加流畅，毕竟作者是NYT的财经版首席记者。而the big short对次贷危机写的更透彻，因为作者Michael Liews是princeton和LSE金融背景毕业，在soloman brothers做过trader，是典型的insid...
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2011.8.5，S&P downgraded U.S. credit rating，全球大跌。每天收到合作的基金公司email轰炸。前天又开始新一轮跌，email又来了。与其读那些email，不如读书。 昨天，终于废寝不忘食读完了The Big Short by Michael Lewis。真好看呐，特别是崩盘前夕那段，真揪心，从中环走到...
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中信出版社2011版
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1 有用 Albatross 2014-01-19 11:06:05
Hard to do a better job on this otherwise boringly dry and artificially distorted topic.
2 有用 Sophie Z 2013-06-28 02:43:18
五星是因为当初给了too big to fail四星，但是坦白说，并不赞成全篇给做空者唱赞歌。
6 有用 躲猫猫社社长 2016-04-06 13:41:43
Say that again? Fuck the poor? Ok got it.
0 有用 DrBigglesworth 2012-09-18 09:57:04
经常被危言耸听有没有
0 有用 冰点 2012-09-17 11:03:24
Not bad a story, nothing more than that, not for serious post 08 people