The big short : inside the doomsday machine
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
330.973/LEWIS,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2010]
©2010
©2010
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393072235 (hardcover), 0393072231 (hardcover), 9780393353150 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2015. 291 pages
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The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives