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Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis (1989, Hardcover)

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In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries.The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393027503
ISBN-13
9780393027501
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59687

Product Key Features

Book Title
Liar's Poker : Rising Through the Wreck Age on Wall Street
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1989
Topic
Investments & Securities / Bonds, Finance / General, Workplace Culture, Investments & Securities / General, Business
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Author
Michael Lewis
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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Lewis has a gift for the rapid portrait. Unless you find his flippant one-liners irritating, it is a pleasure to be guided around the jungle of bond markets by his reminiscences and trenchant asides. . . . Apart from the belly-laughs, one of the triumphs of Liar's Poker is that it makes the financial complexities of investment banking and the markets accessible to the layman. . . . Everything from yields to selling short is painlessly clarified in the course of the narrative., Lewis takes the reader through his schoolboy's progress as trainee and geek in the trading room, to high-powered swashbuckler. The author has a puckish appreciation for the comic. Yet he also has the knack of explaining precisely how complex deals really work. He provides the most readable explanation I've seen anywhere of the origin within Salomon Brothers of the mortgage-backed securities market....It is good history, and a good story.
Lccn
89-030819
Dewey Decimal
332.6/2/0973
Lc Classification Number
Hg4928.5.L48 1989

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