The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a...
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.
Narrative non-fiction, but a totally different style from Peter Hessler. The world of high finance is again but a farce of calculation, greed, bully and indecency in language, with kindness far and fe...Narrative non-fiction, but a totally different style from Peter Hessler. The world of high finance is again but a farce of calculation, greed, bully and indecency in language, with kindness far and few between. That is the real world, so to speak. Great power of money brings about the freedom to utter whatever on one's mind, I suppose.(展开)
Start the new year with a Michael Lewis. Hilarious reflections of his days as a Salomon Brothers' equity salesman. A wide range of issues have been covered, from the management of particular investmen...Start the new year with a Michael Lewis. Hilarious reflections of his days as a Salomon Brothers' equity salesman. A wide range of issues have been covered, from the management of particular investment banks, inside history of Salomon Brothers, to the market developments as well as reflections on the ethics of the financial industry.(展开)
Michael Lewis写道: Alexander insisted at our farewell dinner that I was making a great move. The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention. Then he went even farther. He said that e...
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0 有用 闷闷 2013-08-07 21:09:25
前半本不錯 後面就一般了。
0 有用 惨绿兔 2016-06-19 06:30:17
上世纪八十年代流行的abs, HY等等,产品不一样交易方式不一样,但market还是那个market
0 有用 Vincent ZZZ 2016-03-24 03:31:51
这辈子都不会去做trader,但了解美帝的平行金融世界读一读这本书还是很有用处的。
0 有用 四维九生 2013-04-29 09:15:13
Narrative non-fiction, but a totally different style from Peter Hessler. The world of high finance is again but a farce of calculation, greed, bully and indecency in language, with kindness far and fe... Narrative non-fiction, but a totally different style from Peter Hessler. The world of high finance is again but a farce of calculation, greed, bully and indecency in language, with kindness far and few between. That is the real world, so to speak. Great power of money brings about the freedom to utter whatever on one's mind, I suppose. (展开)
1 有用 不过如北 2016-01-07 09:40:44
Start the new year with a Michael Lewis. Hilarious reflections of his days as a Salomon Brothers' equity salesman. A wide range of issues have been covered, from the management of particular investmen... Start the new year with a Michael Lewis. Hilarious reflections of his days as a Salomon Brothers' equity salesman. A wide range of issues have been covered, from the management of particular investment banks, inside history of Salomon Brothers, to the market developments as well as reflections on the ethics of the financial industry. (展开)
0 有用 bagins 2024-07-15 15:08:35 上海
听
0 有用 symnz 2024-04-05 16:39:10 上海
失望,盛名之下其实难副,更像一本行业内gossip book
0 有用 依然依然me 2024-02-21 06:42:01 美国
insider讲的故事是有意思的,但故事还是不足够精彩
0 有用 warrenluccie 2024-02-01 09:49:41 广东
迈克尔·刘易斯说故事的能力是一流的,基本上是美国投行Sales&Traders必读之书。
0 有用 流浪剑客 2023-08-16 22:41:12 美国
补标,A股股灾时所读