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Cargando... The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010 original; edición 2010)por Michael Lewis (Autor)
Información de la obraLa gran apuesta (The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine) (Spanish Edition) por Michael Lewis (2010)
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |  I read this trying to get a better grasp of what happened to our economy. I am not a big finance guy and hoped it would be written in a way I could understand. It was great. People saw the collapse coming but were ignored in favor of greed. A must read. (  ) cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 | This is essentially a story about what happens when we let our financial institutions run amok through deregulation. Deregulation began with Reagan, and then continued onwards through the Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama administrations (I can only imagine it will continue through the Trump administration as well). This book is a perfect story of a perfect storm, and if it is missing anything, it is a call to action. But I think the call to action is implied by the very nature of the events Lewis describes. ( ) dogboi | Sep 16, 2023 | ) lieblbiz | Aug 30, 2023 | In short, great book that is very insightful and even contains a few laughs throughout. ( ) Acilladon | Jul 30, 2023 |
Thinking about the subprime crisis with the benefit of da Vinci’s distance, it struck me anew how Darwinian and predatory the whole system is. One constantly has to ask, Cui Bono: “Who benefits?” And Ubi Est Mea: “Where’s mine?” One of Eisman’s traders was constantly obsessed with how the party on the other side might screw him (though “screw” was not the word used). That is probably a good attitude to have on Wall Street. By focusing so precisely on the particular, Lewis makes the objects of his scrutiny stand for the whole of the financial world: its obscurantism, under-regulation and wildly short-termist institutional profiteering; the bank bosses’ reluctance to scrutinise the mechanics and risks of their most profitable divisions; and the general refusal to understand the connection between the profits made and the dangerous actuality they were based on: in this case, the deliberately over-complicated financial “instruments” and the poor Americans who were about to default on their mortgages.  In his new book, Lewis is neither obnoxious nor charming. The skies have fallen. The market Wall Street created in the housing debt of the very poorest Americans, so-called "sub-prime" mortgage bonds and various derivative securities, which fell to bits in 2007 and all but engulfed the world in 2008, is the greatest financial fraud since the 18th century. Men and women who once made us laugh now make us shudder. In other words, The Big Short is not half the fun of Liar's Poker, but it is more important. Lewis is a gifted chronicler and debunker and demystifier of the world of finance. No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis, the author of “Liar’s Poker,” that now classic portrait of 1980s Wall Street. His entertaining new book does not attempt a macro view of the financial crisis, but instead proposes to open a small window on the calamities by recounting the stories of some savvy renegades who cashed in on their conviction that the system was rotten. Tiene la adaptaciónTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
La excepcional cr nica del crash inmobiliario que origin la mayor crisis de los ltimos 70 a os. La gran apuesta es la excepcional cr nica del crash inmobiliario que origin la mayor crisis de los ltimos ochenta a os. Cuando en oto o de 2008 la econom a estadounidense se hundi , arrastrando tras de s a buena parte del mundo desarrollado a una crisis de la que a n no hemos salido, a un grupo de personas no le sorprendi en absoluto. Eran unos cuantos inversores y analistas inteligentes que hab an comprendido lo que estaba pasando, pero no dijeron nada, paralizados por el miedo y las posibles ganancias. La pregunta clave que plantea Michael Lewis es: qui n se dio cuenta del riesgo que supon a dar por sentado que los precios del sector inmobiliario seguir an siempre al alza? Un riesgo complicado, adem s, por la creaci n de esos activos extra os y artificiales a partir de hipotecas dudosas. Para contestar esta pregunta Lewis nos presenta una historia incre ble a trav s de los personajes que la protagonizaron, repleta de indignaci n y oscura iron a. "El mejor contador de historias de nuestra generaci n". Malcolm Gladwell "Nadie escribe con mayor agilidad narrativa sobre dinero y finanzas que Michael Lewis. Logra usar las historias de sus protagonistas para explicar la avaricia, la estupidez y la hipocres a de un sistema con una carencia notoria de supervisi n seria. Con un estilo parecido al de Tom Wolfe, Lewis consigue introducir al lector de modo colorido en el mundo darwiniano del mercado de bonos." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Probablemente el mejor libro de periodismo financiero de la historia." Felix Salmon, Reuters "La obra de nuestro mejor periodista econ mico, en su mejor forma. Y de lectura obligatoria." Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible--the free fall of the American economy--finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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