I must confess that I am very ordinary: My favorite author is a bestselling scribe Michael Lewis and his two books, "Liar's Poker" and "The Big Short".
- "Liar's Poker" is about life in investment banks on Wall Street in the Eighties. The reader is shocked by a surreal culture of greed. The stories are told but they still are very humorous and entertaining.
- "The Big Short" tells the story of Wall Street geeks who bet against the system and high gain. Wall Street's greed and the left still significantly increase: A bond dealer complained, although his bonus was $ 47 million.
exercise investment banks as intermediaries for their customers and are trying at the same time to realize a quick profit by breaking down trade positions against the same customers on or off. A massive conflict of interest is the result. Maybe in the future, these two activities will be separated: cheap online broker on one side and hedge Funds on the other side.
A very exciting and entertaining film is "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" , although the story had been in years. Here's the trailer:
For avid readers who are interested in historical speculative bubbles is "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" recommended . 400 years in a book madness!