Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Paperback)
From Library Journal
As described by Lewis, liar’s poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most (Click here for more detail…)
Nuha
29 Jun, 2009
3.0 out of 5 stars
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Paid for a newer edition, recieved the older one. Could have ordered the older edition for less from someone else.
Fuller
29 Jun, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
It happened before, it’s hapenning now, and it’ll happen again
This book helped me to actually understand wall street better than any experience in the past. (And that’s saying a lot since I used to work for a firm which audited some of those…
Anderson
29 Jun, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hello Suckers!
Liar’s Poker is a bluffing game played by the stock and bond traders at Salomon Brothers. There is series of arbitrary numbers — the serial numbers on dollar bills — that the…
Zurina
29 Jun, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed
After reading the reviews on Amazon, I was excited when this book finally arrived. However, after reading 3/4 of the book, I felt the reviews were highly misleading.
Ottavia
29 Jun, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
They made the mortgage backed securities
Michael Lewis’ story of investment banking in the 1980s deserves it classic status.
He writes about the investment bank Salomon Brothers from 1980 to 1987.
Xing xing
30 Jun, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
Peeling a Banana
I am only half the way through the book and I have learned more about trading than the past 20 years. Like everyone I believed in the orderliness of the market.
Rin
30 Jun, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Informative and entertaining
Great read and good inside look at Wall Street in the 1980s. Haivng just finished Barbarians at the Gate (which I also highly recommend), I was searching for a similar read.
Anonymous
30 Jun, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
First-ever financial thriller – Historic
Liar’s Poker goes down in history as the first-ever “high financial thriller” of the non-fiction variety.
Yule
30 Jun, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
This explains a lot!
This is a prophetic story. Michael Lewis is a gifted writer. The ethos of our “credit society” is revealed, in no uncertain terms. A must read for all.
Rita
30 Jun, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and Educational!
Liar’s Poker is a game involving deceit, skill, and luck. “Liar’s Poker,” the book, is a much more interesting topic.