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Liar s Poker; Two Cities, True Greed

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:00:06 +0000

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis’s pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-80s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank. Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar’s Poker is the original story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever.

Boomerang : The Biggest Bust

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:24:38 +0000

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn’t begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really?Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. Michael Lewis’s investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on California, the epicentre of world consumption, where we see that a final reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too. This is the ultimate book of our times. It’s time to brace ourselves for impact. And, with Michael Lewis, to laugh out loud while we’re doing it.

The Big Short: A True Story

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:10:30 +0000

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The #1 New York Times bestseller: It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it’s essential reading.-Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: 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 or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking. Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar’s Poker. Out of a 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 time.

Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:22:45 +0000

Oklada stoljeća

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:59:43 +0000

ISTINA PRIČA GOVORI O FINANCIJSKOJ KRIZI KOJA JE POGODILA GOTOVO CIJELI SVIJET I OSTAVILA ZASTRAŠUJUĆE POSLJEDICE KOJE SE OSJETE I DANAS. Oklada stoljeća istinita je priča o nekoliko izuzetno vještih investitora koji su u razdoblju od 2007. do 2010. iskoristili situaciju stalnoga rasta cijena nekretnina i stvaranja velikoga broja hipoteka te su bogatstvo stekli nepopularnim, proračunatim klađenjem na financijski raspad. Kratki sadržaj: Priča o tajnom porijeklu U zemlji slijepih Kako frajer koji ne govori engleski laže? Kako obrati migrantskog radnika Slučajni kapitalisti Čovjek-pauk u Venetianu Velika potraga za blagom Duga tišina Smrt interesa Dva čovjeka u čamcu Sve je povezano

The Big Short

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 11:49:59 +0000

Bumerang

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:02:56 +0000

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Munjeviti momci s Wall Streeta

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:36:33 +0000

Wall Street je posljednjih desetljeća potpuno promijenio svoju prirodu. Njime više ne upravljaju samo ljudi, njime danas dominiraju strojevi. Brokere su zamijenili kompjuteri, oni obavljaju daleko najveći dio transakcija na Wall Streetu, ali i na drugim svjetskim burzama. Procjenjuje se da oko 60 posto burzovnih transakcija obavljaju kompjuteri, te da se preko kompjutera, bez izravnog sudjelovanja ljudi, obavljaju poslovi vrijedni stotine milijardi dolara. Burzovni stručnjaci znaju da je kod kompjuterskog trgovanja najvažnija brzina, tko ima brže kompjutere i brže prijenosne sustave poslovnih podataka taj je u velikoj prednosti. I sasvim mali pomak u brzini prijenosa podataka može imati ogromne posljedice po stanje na burzama. Ovdje nije riječ o minutama ili sekundama, nego se brzina prijenosa podataka mjeri u nanosekundama. Nekoliko nanosekundi brži prijenosni sustavi mogu vlasnicima donijeti profite koji se mjere u milijardama dolara. Ono što su oni napravili otkrio je u ovoj knjizi poznati američki autor non-fiction bestselera Michael Lewis. On se već i do sada u svojim jako čitanim knjigama redovito bavio velikim mijenama u najpropulzivnijim sferama američkog društva. U ovoj knjizi opisuje jedan svijet koji je rijetko poprište ovakvih uzbudljivih istinitih trilera. Kada je Lewisova knjiga „Munjeviti momci s Wall Streeta“ izašla u SAD, ona je izazvala ne samo senzaciju među čitateljima, pa je tjednima bila na prvom mjestu rangliste najprodavanijih knjiga „New York Timesa“, nego je samo dan nakon njenog izlaska FBI pokrenuo istragu u vezi senzacionalnog otkrića mogućeg krupnog financijskog kriminala koji je u knjizi razotkriven. Michael Lewis rođen je 1960. godine u New Orleansu, diplomirao je na slavnom sveučilištu Princeton, magistrirao na jednako tako slavnoj visokoškolskoj ustanovi London School of Economics, te kasnije radio kao ekonomski komentator za nekoliko američkih listova i magazina. Danas se smatra vodećim američkim autorom non-fiction bestselera iz sfere biznisa i financija.