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The Big Short
Also by Michael Lewis
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EDITED BY MICHAEL LEWIS
Panic
The Big Short
INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Michael Lewis
W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
Copyright (c) 2010 by Michael Lewis
All rights reserved
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
ISBN: 978-0-393-07819-0
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110www.wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT
For
Michael Kinsley
To whom I still owe an article
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
--Leo Tolstoy, 1897
Contents
Prologue
Poltergeist
Chapter 1
A Secret Origin Story
Chapter 2
In the Land of the Blind
Chapter 3
"How Can a Guy Who Can't Speak English Lie?"
Chapter 4
How to Harvest a Migrant Worker
Chapter 5
Accidental Capitalists
Chapter 6
Spider-Man at The Venetian
Chapter 7
The Great Treasure Hunt
Chapter 8
The Long Quiet
Chapter 9
A Death of Interest
Chapter 10
Two Men in a Boat
Epilogue
Everything Is Correlated
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE
Poltergeist
The willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grown-ups remains a mystery to me to this day. I was twenty-four years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall. Wall Street's essential function was to allocate capital: to decide who should get it and who should not. Believe me when I tell you that I hadn't the first clue. I'd never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had savings of my own to manage. I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me as totally preposterous--which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from. I figured the situation was unsustainable. Sooner rather than later, someone was going to identify me, along with a lot of people more or less like ............

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