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.

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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,

Lewis' steady and confident narration is punctuated with news clips reporting updates on the growth of these mysterious yet seductive billion-dollar deals that led to the devastating collapse, the effects of which still reverberate two decades later. An essential, if complex, listening experience that will enrage listeners once again."" —Kirkus Reviews

Can we learn from history?!

I’ve watched the movie a few times, and listened a few times to the fantastic Planet Money episodes that described the events unspooled in Michael Lewis’s fantastic book, as all his books are - and still, some aspects are hard for me to understand. What is not hard, is to draw meaningful parallels between conditions that lead to 2008 collapse and today. Its is a valuable, well researched and well researched, with great narration - a perfect audiobook.

searing insight

a stunning indictment of an industry still rotten to the core. a must read. Lewis is a great narrator and writer.

Engaging

Hearing the author tell the story and using audio clips of major plot points was very engaging as a listener.

Incredible. Eye-Opening. Shocking Insights

Amazing book -- skillfully explains the mind-boggling greed and rampant non-accountability of the country's financial elite in a way that us non-economics types can understand. But it still took some frequent rewinds to fully absorb his great explanations of the rocket science stupidity of so many money hungry Wall Streeters and ordinary citizens too. Now I finally understand (mostly) what happened to us in 2008. It almost gives some closure. Almost.

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.