The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
2010
History
by
Michael Lewis
2010
Part investigative biography and part biographical anthology, this book explores the U.S. housing bubble that triggered the 2007–2008 financial crisis. Michael Lewis profiles contrarian investors — including Michael Burry, Steve Eisman, Greg Lippmann, and Charlie Ledley & Jamie Mai — who spotted the bubble early and made outsized returns by betting against it.
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The Greatest Trade Ever
October 2017
An investigative biography of how John Paulson's hedge fund made $20 billion by shorting the U.S. housing market during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. This book reveals how Paulson and his lieutenant Paolo Pellegrini identified the housing bubble, used credit default swaps to bet against it, and pulled off one of Wall Street’s greatest trades.
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