The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis
By: Lewis, Michael (Michael M.) [author].
Publisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2010Edition: First edition.Description: xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393072235.Subject(s): Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century | United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009Genre/Form: History. | Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | HC106.83 .L5 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013280 |
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Prologue : Poltergeist -- A secret origin story -- In the land of the blind -- "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?" -- How to harvest a migrant worker -- Accidental capitalists -- Spider-man at the Venetian -- The great treasure hunt -- The long quiet -- A death of interest -- Two men in a boat -- Epilogue : Everything is correlated
The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives