Liar s Poker

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 15 March 2010

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
• Release : 21 October 2021

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton
• Release : 27 October 2014

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 27 October 2014

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three books cover thirty years of endemic global corruption—perhaps the defining problem of our age—which

• Author : Ant Hive Media
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release : 22 May 2016

This is a collection of summaries featuring books written by one of our greatest financial journalist: Michael Lewis. It includes the #1 New York Times Bestsellers: Flash Boys, Liar's Poker, The Big Short. The summaries provide insight to investments and securities trading in the US equity market leading to the crash. FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT SUMMARY: This is a summary of a #1 New York Times Bestseller that focuses on the rise of high-frequency trading in the US equity market.

• Author : John Archer
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 1982

• Author : Michael Lewis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 1989

In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes astonishing era and his own rake's progress through the jungle of a powerful investment bank. In two short years he rose from trainee to a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 2021

• Author : Katie Kelley
• Publisher : AMACOM
• Release : 02 March 2016

How has your answer changed since childhood to the often-asked question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For most, the answers tend to begin with excited seven-year-olds confidently and excitedly screaming out things like, “A basketball player!” or “A fireman!” or “A cook!” and then ten to fifteen years later those same kids are shrugging their shoulders while saying, “Not sure. Maybe something in accounting?”What happened? (Besides only growing to five foot eight and not

• Author : William D. Chalmers
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 01 August 2000

A Blind Date With the World gives the reader a seat in the ox-cart with the team that eventually won a grueling 40,000 miles-in-seventeen-days-through-ten-countries travel adventure. Chalmers offers up a steady barrage of colorful, intriguing and provocative insights into our Global Village as he and his partner-in-crime race through sacred holy grounds, track down orangutans and employ every conceivable method of public transportation. Billed as the HumanRace,what was thought to be relaxing champagne and caviar sojourn around the world turned

• Author : Andrew Waxman
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 01 May 2017

Reduce or prevent risk failure losses with new and emerging technologies Rogues of Wall Street analyzes the recent risk failures and errors that have overwhelmed Wall Street for the past decade. Written by a veteran risk, compliance, and governance specialist, this book helps bank leaders and consultants identify the tools they need to effectively manage operational risk. Citing different types of risk events such as: Rogue and Insider Trading, cyber security, AML, the Mortgage Crisis, and other major events, chapters

• Author : Nancy Gilsenan
• Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
• Release : 21 October 1983

Describes a youth's breakdown and recovery and how it affects his family. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 October 1992

• Author : Thurman Woodfork
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 September 2007

Stories and poems engendered by my Air Force tours of duty in Vietnam and other places.

• Author : Neil D. Isaacs
• Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
• Release : 13 January 2015

We are a nation of gamblers: pari-mutuel wagering at horse tracks; blackjack in Las Vegas; the NCAA basketball office pool; even day trading on the internet. Gambling is both our national pastime and our predominant cultural metaphor -- play the field; beat the odds; take a chance on love. Yet gambling poses serious risks to individuals and to society as a whole. Neil Isaacs -- sports historian, licensed clinical social worker, English professor, and a gambler himself for more than