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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

by Michael Lewis

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In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle,...more

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Published October 17th 1989 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1989)

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Mar 25, 2007

Steven rated it

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pp 83 is a discussion of S&L's failure in the US.
pp 136 is the best explanation of CMO's I've ever read.

Great read. Initially loaned to me by a coworker. I went out and bought it shortly thereafter.

A former art student winds up becoming a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers in the mid 1980's. He sees a lot, and describes it vividly. Chernobyl. The October Crash of 1987. Gutfreund and Meriwether quibbling over how much to bet in one hand of the title game.

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Jun 25, 2008

Ruben rated it

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This book surprised me. I read and enjoyed Lewis' Moneyball a while back, and thought I was getting another journalistic account, this time of a crazy moment in corporate culture. Instead, it's very much a memoir of that world. And I didn't care for it at first, since the group of people he writes about are so spectacularly awful. He brings a certain world of investment banking trainees home to you, and I wanted nothing to do with it. If that was the whole book, I don't think I could take it. So...more

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Dec 04, 2008

Matt rated it

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This was a fascinating book to be reading in the midst of the biggest financial crisis of the past 75 years. Liar's Poker records the author's experience as a bonds trader for Solomon Brothers, at the height of the 80's trading explosion - an accurate, and frightening, account of the ludicrous nature of the whole industry. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the book is the attitude of the traders: to make money at any cost, regardless of the consequences. In this world, it was perfectly accep...more

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Feb 04, 2012

Steve rated it

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Very engaging read. Michael Lewis is an excellent storyteller who gives readers an entertaining inside look at whatever is his topic. Liar's Poker follows his own two to three year (successful) career as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the mid-late 1980s. He describes from the inside the pseudo-macho, hyperactive life of bond traders and salesmen at one of the biggest Wall Street investment firms. The greed, gluttony, and appalling pursuit of money at all costs (including clients' and ...more

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Jan 08, 2012

Mike rated it

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I'm a little torn by this book. It's well written, it's funny in places, some of Michael Lewis' observations are very astute and I'm sure that on some level this is an excellent commentary on the downfall of a once great company. Lewis was a trainee bond trader at Salomon Brothers when that firm was the most profitable on Wall St. He did very well out of his time there, and his analysis both here and in another of his works, The Big Short, pinpoints several of the problems that society has, or s...more

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Dec 24, 2011

Flavio rated it

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Liar's Poker is a book about the days that Michael Lewis spent at Solomon Brothers as a Bond broker during the bond boom that took place starting in the 80's. The book is really entertaining and at the same time very informative. The book can be grouped into a few sections, that have very distinct focuses. The first is about the rise to prominence of Louie Ranieri to the head of the mortgage bond trading desk and his subsequent fall. The second is about Lewis' own experience in the London office...moreLiar's Poker is a book about the days that Michael Lewis spent at Solomon Brothers as a Bond broker during the bond boom that took place starting in the 80's. The book is really entertaining and at the same time very informative. The book can be grouped into a few sections, that have very distinct focuses. The first is about the rise to prominence of Louie Ranieri to the head of the mortgage bond trading desk and his subsequent fall. The second is about Lewis' own experience in the London office of Solomon Brothers as a trader in the corporate bond department. The third section talks about Michael Milken , the junk bond czar, and his rise to power. I was amazed by the extent to which this whole industry is driven by Ego, cunning, opportunism, speculation, deceit, and street smarts. It is clear that the customer is a victim to be exploited by this industry.It is amazing to realize that institutional investors like pension funds and trusts make multi-billion dollar investments in some of these bonds which turn out to be little more than a speculative gambles of varying levels of risk. Some people become very rich some loose their shirts, and all the while the investment banks make huge profits. It is also thought provoking how laws enacted by the government can drive a whole industry. An example of this is home mortgages as a bond instrument.There is one characteristic of mortgages that make them uninteresting to the bond industry and that is the fact that they can be repaid at any time. Bonds are generally held to a maturity date. Who wants to hold a bond that can be repaid at any time ? The financial lobby tried like crazy to get congress to enact legislation to force a holder of a mortgage to hold it for full term or pay a penalty. This would make it more interesting as a debt instrument, to the detriment of the mortgage holder. This lead to a whole industry which is the CMO industry. Abuses in this industry ultimately lead to the housing bubble and the finanacial crisis 0f 2008. You can read Lewis' other book, The Big Short, for more details about this. In any case, if you want to read a first hand account of the inner workings of the wall street bond industry from an insider, this is a very good read.(less)

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Dec 03, 2011

Jake Losh rated it

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Liar's Poker is my first exposure to Michael Lewis and also my first exposure to memoir books about finance, the career path that, by revealed preference, I seem to have chosen to follow. As Lewis tells it, unlike most financial memoirs, this is one of the only ones to talk about the bond market, rather than the stock market, which also happens to be the area in which I have the most experience, so it was only natural that I was enthralled reading this book.

The book follows Lewis' expe...more

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Sep 27, 2011

Patrick McCoy rated it

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After reading Moneyball, I thought Liar's Poker must be a worthwhile read. But, I have to say, the middle chapters about the intricacies of the market, the history of Salomon Brothers, and other specialized discussions tried my patience. I was much more interested in Lewis’ personal story and his somewhat “outsider” perspective. He has a gift for capturing the essence of people with all their quirks and why they are successful, or not, at what they do. I guess it is somewhat fascinating how so ...more After reading Moneyball, I thought Liar's Poker must be a worthwhile read. But, I have to say, the middle chapters about the intricacies of the market, the history of Salomon Brothers, and other specialized discussions tried my patience. I was much more interested in Lewis’ personal story and his somewhat “outsider” perspective. He has a gift for capturing the essence of people with all their quirks and why they are successful, or not, at what they do. I guess it is somewhat fascinating how so many alpha males and cavemen made so much money or lost so much money in the markets in the last 25 years, especially since so many of them were quite young as well. I’ve read a couple of other books like Rouge Trader, which was about Nick Leeson who brought down Barclay Bank, and Ugly Americans, which is about traders in Tokyo during the bubble economy. I can’t say that any of these books have improved my opinion of investment bankers, traders, and anyone in finance. After moving to Tokyo, I have rubbed shoulders with these people much more than I had in Seattle-probably due to Tokyo being one of the major world financial centers. Perhaps had I been in Seattle during Internet boom, I could have compared it to that, but I was here. These are people, who feel that the accumulation of money and job status are the only important factors in life. These are people who feel that bonuses, expense accounts, and flying first class are entitlements, rather than perks or rewards. The same people, who never reflect on the havoc that their market trades have caused. Then again the institutions used the traders and money managers and then discarded them when fished-the 80s parables of greed that continues today. However, I don’t think any lesson were really learned by anyone then. Lewis was able to be outside it since he never considered being a lifer in the industry-he was able to walk away. I believe him when he writes: “I’m now convinced that the worst thing a man can do with a telephone, without breaking the law is to call someone he doesn’t know and try to sell that person something he doesn’t want.” It is something that I have spent most of my adult life trying to avoid learning about first hand, so far so good.(less)

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Jul 10, 2011

Kristine rated it

I didn't expect to be so entertained, even to the point of chuckling out loud, while reading this book: Liar's Poker:Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street.

The topic is hardly humorous, but Michael Lewis displays a flair for character description, clear communication, and generally all-round good writing in this memoir-style inside view into the culture and goings on of Salomon Brothers during the 1980s.

Author Lewis tells the larger story of a firm and an era...more

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Dec 20, 2010

Scott rated it

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Excellent book. I was almost scared off by the copyright date (1989. And indeed I probably wouldn't have bought this if I didn't already like the author and it hadn't been on sale) since I was expecting it to be at least a little dated with lots of sections like "computer?! woah!", but I'm glad I gave this a shot. It's great, and in terms of being dated, this could have been written yesterday since it focuses on the culture/rise & fall of bond trading and not on the actual process at t...more

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Jun 19, 2010

Craig rated it

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Although it's a gripping narrative that seems to nail the sentiment of the 80s on Wall Street, its greatest virtue is its humor. The description of the group of mortgage bond traders at Salomon Brothers in the early 80s is just classic. Led by a stereotypical fat Italian (employing other fat Italians) who rose from working the mail room to managing director, this small group of traders was in the right place at the right time: when Congress granted tax breaks to S&Ls for selling their mortgages,...moreAlthough it's a gripping narrative that seems to nail the sentiment of the 80s on Wall Street, its greatest virtue is its humor. The description of the group of mortgage bond traders at Salomon Brothers in the early 80s is just classic. Led by a stereotypical fat Italian (employing other fat Italians) who rose from working the mail room to managing director, this small group of traders was in the right place at the right time: when Congress granted tax breaks to S&Ls for selling their mortgages, a huge market for mortgages arose overnight. Because no other investment house was set up to trade mortgage bonds when this golden opportunity arose, these guys became the primary buyer of mortgages, and could buy mortgages for much cheaper than they were worth, and turn around and instantly sell them back to another S&L for an easy markup. They had a clear monopoly for several years on this scheme, until upper management screwed up by refusing to pay the traders what they were worth (and made the market more efficient -- good for us).

The more obviously funny parts were reading about their "unmatched feats of gluttony" on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, but actually the entire description of how Salomon operated was funny in a dark, twisted way.

I suppose the narrative, assuming it's basically correct and doesn't omit key events, simplifies my own view towards what Wall Street has done, and the direction it is moving: its original intent was to allow people to move money around, at the cost of keeping a portion of the pie it moves. Evidently, since the 80s, it has also opened up a casino-like infrastructure that provides money managers with an endless number of games. The casino business has become the source of huge profits in the past 30 years. Regardless of which type of game you like, Wall Street is sure to have something you like to play. The rules are: if you win, you keep a portion of the winnings, and if you lose, you simply walk away. After all, it was other people's money to begin with. The incentive structure for money managers to risky bets. Forget any notion Congress has today of "finreg"; if the incentive structure can't be changed, then we are doomed to repeat an increasingly amplified version of the boom/bust cycle, as we have witnessed for nearly 30 years.(less)

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Apr 02, 2010

Paulkelly05 rated it

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This was a really good book. This was written by a Solomon Brothers Trader, who worked in the 80s. He talked about his experience at the firm but the better part was reading about the dynamics of the market and how Solomon Brothers adapted. During his time at the firm, Junk Bonds and Mortgage backed bonds came into vogue. The Mortgage backed bonds were actually developed at Solomon Brothers. And it was interesting to learn about them, seeing as they were a large factor in the most rece...more

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Jun 19, 2009

Nicholas rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Funny. Showed how crazy all these guys were. Big swinging dicks.

Interestingly Lewis wrote the book to dissuade people from taking this path. After it came out he was inundated with questions about how to best break into the industry.

The best part was the stuff about the interviews. The guys who had only just started were doing them and were totally changed people. These guys had so many different dances you had to do. I guess it goes with how self important you feel when ...more

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May 22, 2009

Franco Da Costa Gomez rated it

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Really, really wished I had read this book about a year and a half ago when I was about to start my job-search in college. The first few chapters describe what I went through perfectly, I was nodding along the whole way. That didn't last too long though as I definitely got lost in all the jargon/technical speak/employee names later on in the book and ended up rushing to finish it. Good read though, and I learned a lot:

I do not want to work in finance and never should have wanted to w...more

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Apr 04, 2009

James rated it

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A journalistic peek behind the trading mania of wall street in the late 80's. The game of Liar's poker will never be the same again. I know guys who have kept "special" dollar bills in their pocket just in case they get stuck in one of those games.

The book, of course, is about how "investment" has become "casino gambling" like poker on wall street. Especially in the highly technical world of bond trading. The protagonists in this book have come and go...more

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Jun 11, 2011

Frank Stein rated it

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A brilliant and funny memoir of life on Wall Street in the 1980s. Michael Lewis shows exactly how craven and self-serving his firm, Salomon Brothers, had become by the time of his arrival in 1985. Previously a backwater, Jewish-led, bond trading firm, Salomon rode the wave of leverage in the Reagan era to become the most profitable investment bank in the world. Yet part of that success came from keeping good deals on its own books and passing bad bets to its customers. Lewis describes his first ...moreA brilliant and funny memoir of life on Wall Street in the 1980s. Michael Lewis shows exactly how craven and self-serving his firm, Salomon Brothers, had become by the time of his arrival in 1985. Previously a backwater, Jewish-led, bond trading firm, Salomon rode the wave of leverage in the Reagan era to become the most profitable investment bank in the world. Yet part of that success came from keeping good deals on its own books and passing bad bets to its customers. Lewis describes his first qualms and eventual acceptance of "jamming" bad bond deals down the throats of European investors and the praise from his superiors whenever he had sold a horrible deal. For instance, after selling some crappy AT&T bonds to a German investor he was praised as corporate hero, though he had to endure the "primal Teutonic scream" of his irate customer on an almost daily basis thereafter. As one of the teachers at his training program told him "Some people were born customers," meaning born-suckers. (Not surprisingly, Salomon's irate customers soon stopped taking the abuse and not long after Lewis published this book it was bought up by Traveler's Group and later Citi.)

Perhaps most interesting for those reading the book today, Lewis takes a strange 100-page segue to describe the history of mortgage-backed securities, the first of which was sold by Salomon brothers trader Lewis Ranieri in 1979. He describes the MBS as an only slightly less important financial innovation than junk bonds, which, in light of current events, is an amazing understatement. Lewis, who has a fine eye for business culture, describes how Ranieri self-consciously assembled a group of fat, slovenly, back-office Italian traders (their words) to compete in the then impoverished mortgage market. He strove to create his own oppositional culture inside the increasingly WASPish firm, and, after Congress liberalized Savings and Loans investment rules in 1982, his band of misfits became some of the most profitable traders on planet earth. The rest is history.

Parts of the book move surprisingly slow (he takes almost a 100 pages describing his training program), and I wish there was more focus on his own experience as a salesman, but all of it is engaging and well-written. It's a great inside look at how Wall Street worked, and works.

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Aug 04, 2011

Kate rated it

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Why am I languishing here, making approximately $0 dollars as a librarian? Why was I not a Wall Street investment banker?! These guys were having all the fun. In his introduction to the Big Short, Lewis writes that he was dismayed people took Liar's Poker not as a cautionary tale, but as a how-to manual for their careers. But I can totally understand why! He makes the trading floor sound like the place to be, the absolute center of the universe.

He's also got a real knack for explainin...more

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May 06, 2010

Ramakrishnan M rated it

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Liar’s Poker is a very interesting book. It is a story of the bond trading business in the ‘80s, as narrated by someone working in Salamon Brothers those days. I personally knew very little about the debt markets and bond trading, so it was very educational as well as amusing.
You can learn a lot about traders and salesmen, action on the trading floor, how excruciatingly painful it is to join these firms, and all the more painful to continue your job, et al. There is also lot of informatio...more

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Dec 31, 2011

Dan Hummel rated it

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This is an informative and entertaining insider's account of the rise and decline of the Salomon Brothers bond trading firm in the 1980s. Lewis's genius is in his vivid character sketches and great anecdotes. One of my favorites is Ch. 8's story about Lewis's revenge on "the opportunist" who took credit for a new way to trade bonds.

More broadly this book gives a sense of the wild west atmosphere in the finance industry and, most troubling, the fundamentally conflicted nature ...more

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Nov 08, 2009

Wesley rated it

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Liar's Poker tells the story of Michael Lewis and his career on Wall Street during the eighties. In those days, it was almost like the wild west with people throwing money around. Then, the loss of massive sums of money (one hundred million and over) was something that was laughable and easily disregarded. Now, losing that amount of money would yield either a huge embarassment or an instantaeneous firing. Througout the book, Michael Lewis describes to macho-nature of the financial world by usin...more

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Dec 28, 2011

Ron rated it

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Another great Michael Lewis read. This early title covers his apprenticeship at Solomon Brothers in the 1980's. I never thought "compelling reading" and "bond market" would fit well in the same sentence, but in this case they do. Lewis has a gift for balancing analysis with great first-person reporting, and a style that just bounces along.

One jewel from his description of how Solomon management went bad: "The reward for being a good producer is to be ma...more

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Aug 12, 2011

Arjun Mishra rated it

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I was hoping for a better book from Michael Lewis. I read The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine before reading this, so my expectations might have been biased, but I was hoping for something that did more than illuminate some scandalous activity. It was minor league in that it attempted to illustrate some central characters in Solomon Brothers. Lewis does much better in making his characters palpable in The Big Short.

He touched upon this a couple times, but he never entirely pou...more

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Aug 10, 2009

Hilary rated it

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So I just finished this book this morning. The fianc told me I had to read this “so I would understand what he does all day” This is what I learned:

1) If you want to work for Soly in the 80’s the F bomb must be every other word that comes out of your mouth

2) You don’t actualy have to understand finance or anything finance related. If the guy you are sitting next to does, you can just literally copy every move he makes. If he is smart - people will think you are too! If h...more

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Jan 25, 2009

Andrew rated it

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I originally became interested in reading this book after reading a New York Times article the author wrote earlier this year, dealing with the recent economic downturn. In the article, he mentioned this book, and how he'd written it at the time of the S&L-bailout-related economic dive. At the time (he said in the article), he'd thought that that stock market crash would end the era of greed and recklessness that had reigned on Wall Street during the 80s, and figured that he could come up with a...moreI originally became interested in reading this book after reading a New York Times article the author wrote earlier this year, dealing with the recent economic downturn. In the article, he mentioned this book, and how he'd written it at the time of the S&L-bailout-related economic dive. At the time (he said in the article), he'd thought that that stock market crash would end the era of greed and recklessness that had reigned on Wall Street during the 80s, and figured that he could come up with a good cautionary tale based on his insider's perspective, gained while working at a powerful bond trading company during that era. What he found (he continued) was that his book was seen more like a how-to manual, especially after the stock market quickly rebounded, and more people than ever desired to get into the Wall Street free-money business.

I myself am still not sure if Wall Street's reckless, no-tomorrow practices are over. After all, while I feel that the current policy of bailing out certain institutions is fundamentally a good idea, the way it's being handled seems almost guaranteed to create more recklessness in companies who can continue to think that, if they fuck up, they can just get more free money from the government. That all being said, I fully expect those companies to be headed straight downwards in the coming years. With that in mind--and believe me, throughout my reading of "Liar's Poker", it was at the forefront of my mind--this book is a revealing look that uses readable terminology and a briskly flowing, engaging, and oftentimes hilarious writing style to turn what could easily be an incomprehensible tale of complicated economic matters into an eminently understandable account that will keep anyone entertained. And, I hasten to add, horrified. There's a lot of ridiculous, stupid, reckless shit going on in this book, and the fact that all of it really happened is downright frightening. After reading "Liar's Poker", you'll find yourself thinking of Wall Street traders as billionaire gamblers with nothing to go on but hunches and superstitions. You'll probably be right, too. After all, as Lewis points out on numerous occasions throughout this book, if you have enough money, you can cover up any mistakes. And at this point in history, 20 years after the conclusion of this narrative, there's no doubt in my mind that Wall Street traders are behaving several orders of magnitude more recklessly than they were during the 80s.

If you're scared about the state of our economy going forward and gallows humor is your thing, this book is a perfect read for you right now. You can laugh yourself sick at all the ridiculous bullshit that people at places like Merrill Lynch were (and no doubt still are) doing. If, on the other hand, you've got a weak stomach, you might want to give this one a miss. It will make you lose sleep.(less)

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Feb 24, 2011

Kyle Kurpinski rated it

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This book is the very definition and "short and sweet." I listened to it on audio book in a little over 3 hours (contrast this to something like Stephen King's "It," looming large in my queue at a whopping 44+ hours). Michael Lewis' personal memoir of his time as a bond salesman on Wall street in the late 80s is a fascinating account of the greed and corruption that were (and obviously still are) rampant throughout the financial world. Lewis pieces together several short stor...more

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Feb 25, 2009

Matt rated it

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This book sure is a doozy of a read against the current financial backdrop of our country! I like Michael Lewis a lot, and enjoyed this book, but there were parts that felt stronger than others. You get a sense of the over-their-headness of Wall Street in the 80's (which seems to have been an unfortunate trend that didn't change...), and there are some good stories, but there are times I wish he'd have broken down some of the basic economics a little more... A key example is in the section abo...more

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Nov 22, 2011

Owen rated it

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This was Michael Lewis' first book, it launched his writing career and destroyed his Wall Street one. It's funny and clever and very 80s, all in Lewis' easy-going storytelling manner. It's easy to see why he became such a prolific writer- he's funny and accessible and somehow one of us despite going to Princeton and the London School of Economics and landing a job at the most profitable firm on Wall street at the time. It's less easy to see how he managed a career as a journalist as an invest...more

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Mar 10, 2011

Elizabeth Escobar rated it

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I am a HUGE Michael Lewis fan and his writing is great!! I LOVE ALL his current research on the financial crises of Greece, Ireland and Iceland that you can check out VanityFair.com.

This first book is ok with very boring intricacies of traders on Wall Street literally gambling with YOUR money. I love his style of discussing the environment and personalities in explaining his tough financial material. But this one was too much financial jargon.

The important point you sho...more

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Feb 23, 2010

Corey Vilhauer rated it

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Excerpt from What I’ve Been Reading: Outliers/Liar’s Poker

"Set in the mid 80s, when mortgage bonds and junk bonds came into being, Michael Lewis recounts his time at Solomon Brothers, a trading firm on Wall Street. Here, luck seemed to outplay hard work, though, just as in Outliers, both were needed.

I’ve loved Michael Lewis’s sports books (Moneyball and The Blind Side), and enjoyed Liar’s Poker as well. For two reasons, really. First, it gave me an understanding as t...more

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Jan 01, 2009

Jack rated it

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A first person account of a Princeton Art History major's accidental employment at Solomon Brothers investment bank, back in the days when Solomon ruled that world and its mostly nutso employees made the most of a nutso corporate culture--to make more money than anyone else in the world. A quick, easy read, part freak show, part cautionary tale about how a "most trusted name" in the financial world really operates.

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