The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

De: Michael Lewis

Narrado por: Michael Lewis

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Hear the original story that was turned into an Oscar-winning film directly from the author, Michael Lewis, for the very first time.

When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash had taken place silently over the previous year, in obscure financial markets where the SEC doesn’t bother to look: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was actually happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.

Newly narrated by the author himself, Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. In The Big Short, he asks: Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely―really unlikely―heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

©2010 Michael Lewis (P)2025 Michael Lewis and Pushkin Industries

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“It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading.”―Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

“No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies, and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision.... Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market.”―Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“One of the best business books of the past two decades.”―Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book Review,

Narration and character development

It was a great historical narrative. Loved it. Love. Michael Lewis. Hope he writes more.

Fascinating read!

Explained complicated topics very clearly. The level of greed is insane. I couldn’t stop listening and finished this within a couple days.

So much info and such scary times

I really enjoy the authored writing style and to revisit this book after watching the movie based on it is wildly scary and yet informative at how the crash all came about.

gripping story of greed and stupidity

Everyone who depends on the US economy should read this book. How can Wall Street traders lose billions for their firm but walk away with millions for themselves? How can the biggest firms lose lose everything and have taxpayers pay the bill? This readable book develops the personalities and thought processes of the few traders who saw it coming and were still shaken by its magnitude.

Great Story, Annoying sound effects.

Great story and narration. But the background music and sound effects were a bit distracting.