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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Daryl Paranada Dec 16, 2010

Title: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Author: Michael Lewis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Type: Non Fiction

Released: March 15, 2010

Length: 266 pages

A book about the financial crisis as told through the eyes of minor players, such as managers of three small hedge funds. Lewis reveals how these Wall Street bit players were among the first to see the subprime crisis coming.

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