Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
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“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
Source →“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
Source →“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
Source →“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
Source →“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Finance, Best Investing Books, and Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss.
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...
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“@bwgooner78 I really don’t have time to explain how financial markets work. Buy Michael Lewis’s book Liar’s Poker. It’s about 30 years old now but it’s absolutely perfect for understanding how mortgages come from finance markets and what bonds are. And it’s a terrifically entertaining read. | @magdaborowik he's really good (I will even forgive him "Flash Boys" and some of the silly stuff about Ireland). Massive tribute to that book that people still talk about "equities in dallas" like forty years later | A time machine into this place when our financial economy went crazily wrong. | A very exciting book. | People sometimes ask me like ?I want to go into finance, what books should I read,? and I always say ?well Liar?s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course? before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the ?of course? list. | People sometimes ask me like “I want to go into finance, what books should I read,” and I always say “well Liar’s Poker and Barbarians at the Gate of course” before getting into more specific recommendations. I might add Diary of a Very Bad Year to the “of course” list.”
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