Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis (Read by), Jesse Boggs (Read by)

The Big Short

Inside the Doomsday Machine

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Summary

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Big Short by Michael Lewis, read by Jesse Boggs and the author.

'We fed the monster until it blew up ...'

While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune.

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.

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It's time to throw another tank of petrol on the Wall Street pyre, as only Lewis can
Financial Times

About the author

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.

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