Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Review
– Library Journal“Lewis has a gift for the rapid portrait. Unless you find his flippant one-liners irritating, it is a pleasure to be guided around the jungle of bond markets by his reminiscences and trenchant asides. . . . Apart from the belly-laughs, one of the triumphs of Liar’s Poker is that it makes the financial complexities of investment banking and the markets accessible to the layman. . . . Everything from yields to selling short is painlessly clarified in the course of the narrative.”
– Victor Mallet, London Review of Books
“Lewis takes the reader through his schoolboy’s progress as trainee and geek in the trading room, to high-powered swashbuckler. The author has a puckish appreciation for the comic. Yet he also has the knack of explaining precisely how complex deals really work. He provides the most readable explanation I’ve seen anywhere of the origin within Salomon Brothers of the mortgage-backed securities market….It is good history, and a good story.”
– National Review
Product details
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (March 15, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 039333869X
- ISBN-13: 978-0393338690