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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis turns the 2008 financial crisis into the story of a few outsiders who saw the mortgage bond market for the disaster it was and bet against it. The Big Short is narrative nonfiction at its sharpest, explaining how Wall Street built something almost nobody understood, and finding grim comedy in the wreckage.