Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
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Recommended by 7 notable people, including Tim Ferriss and Tim O’Reilly
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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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