John Burgess answers “I'm 12 yrs old, do u think i am too young...”

Winnie asked this question about The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine:

I'm 12 yrs old, do u think i am too young to read this book?

John Burgess The Big Short does get bogged down in repetitive detail about CDO's and CD's and bond trading. I would recommend for younger readers, "A Colossal Fail…moreThe Big Short does get bogged down in repetitive detail about CDO's and CD's and bond trading. I would recommend for younger readers, "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense" by Lawrence G. McDonald and Patrick Robinson. This is an insiders view of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It covers similar ground to The Big Short but tells the story from the POV of a young man rising up the ladder to getting a job at Lehman's just as the storm clouds were beginning to gather.(less)

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