Michael Lewis's 2010 account of the handful of investors who saw the 2008 financial crisis coming and bet against mortgage-backed securities — told through the eccentric characters who understood what most of Wall Street missed.
Creates the definitive popular account of the 2008 crisis — The Big Short explains the CDO/CDS/MBS apparatus through the characters who understood it (Michael Burry, Steve Eisman, Greg Lippmann) in a way that made the financial crisis legible to non-financial readers.
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