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Liar's Poker: Two Cities, True Greed | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Coronet Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.50
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 210988
Media: Paperback
Pages: 298
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340767006
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780340767009
ASIN: 0340767006
Publication Date: October 21, 1999
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From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life "Bonfire of the Vanities", funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.
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Solomon Brother March 6, 2008
Salman Qutb (Pakistan)
It's an entertaining book for everybody that drags you back into time when the mortgage bond industry, as we see it today, was beginning to get started.
Lewis's narration is in a brilliant manner which even a non financial person will finds interesting. I having worked as a mortgage banker can relate to many things described in its chapters. Though, it sums up a lot of what happened in a more captivating & a fictional manner.
Begin reading and very soon you will also starts to feel a part of that world in that fascinating era. Lewis discusses the evolution of the bond market, how
mortgaged-backed securities came to exist, and
But, very soon you also begin to trust you instinctive disbelief of mortgage brokers ! About midway through this book you also begin to draw an interesting lesson.........one can make an awesome amount of money using judgment based on with the right financial analysis skills but to make tons of more money than the awesome amount one need to be an aggressive trader ;)
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