The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Informationen zum Autor Michael Lewis 's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys , a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short , which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker , the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk , revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. Klappentext While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history. Zusammenfassung From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Lewis
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780141043531
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104353-1
• Seiten: 270
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; Finanzkrise, USA : Wirtschaft, Recht, Finance and the finance industry