Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition)

Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition)
Author :
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393246100
ISBN-13 : 0393246108
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition) by : Michael Lewis

Download or read book Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition) written by Michael Lewis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three books cover thirty years of endemic global corruption—perhaps the defining problem of our age—which has never been so hilariously skewered as in Liar's Poker, now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author. It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time. After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poured in your lap. This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have of those heady, frenzied years. In it Lewis describes 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. As he has continued to do for a quarter century, Michael Lewis here 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 chairmen Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar’s poker for one million dollars.


Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition) Related Books

Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Michael Lewis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-28 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A
Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition): Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Michael Lewis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A
Liar's Poker
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Michael Lewis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-02 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous
This Time Is Different
Language: en
Pages: 513
Authors: Carmen M. Reinhart
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.
Den of Thieves
Language: en
Pages: 614
Authors: James B. Stewart
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-20 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it