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Liar's Poker

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  • 1989
  • #Finance #Investment
Michael Lewis
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<strong>The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.</strong> <br /><br />Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of E... Show More

<strong>The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.</strong> <br /><br />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. <em>Liar’s Poker</em> is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune. .

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Number of Pages: 310

ISBN: 039333869X

ISBN-13: 9780393338690

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Louie Bacaj @LBacaj · Apr 8, 2023
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And this phenomenon seems to occur in many dominant industries at their peak. Could be a signal of the end. Wall St. did the exact same thing in their hay day, in the 80s, right before the dive. Michael Lewis has a wonderful book on this. The parallels to Big Tech are uncanny.
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