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The Game: In Liar's Poker a group of people—as few as two, as many as ten—form a circle. Each player holds a dollar bill close to his chest. The game is similar in spirit to the card game known as I Doubt It. Each player attempts to fool the others about the serial numbers printed on the face of his dollar bill.
The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of bestsellers THE BIG SHORT and THE PREMONITION. _____ The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar's Poker. 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 ...
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. Michael M. Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 - Biography & Autobiography - 249 pages. In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton ...
29 de dic. de 2021 · TheHaughtyCulturist. Liar’s Poker lifts the lid on Wall Street’s money games: very profitable, occasionally absurd, and totally ruthless. If your background is more small change than Big Finance you might expect Liar’s Poker to be a less than thrilling read about stocks and shares. Not so: Michael Lewis’s insider history of the rise and ...
27 de oct. de 2014 · "Liar's Poker is the funniest book on Wall Street I've ever read." ― Tom Wolfe "Often profane, always hilarious, right on the mark." ― People "So memorable and alive…one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era." ― Fortune "Makes the bond-trading business look like a cross between Animal House and Greed Incorporated…Lewis recounts incidents that should make customers ...
Liar's Poker had a lot in common with bond trading. It tested a trader's character. It honed a trader's instincts. A good player made a good trader, and vice versa. We all understood it. The Game: In Liar's Poker a group of people—as few as two, as many as ten—form a circle. Each player holds a dollar bill close to his chest. The
7 de mar. de 2022 · "Liar's Poker" tells the story of Lewis' experience as a bond salesman in the 1980s. "I wrote my first book more than three decades ago. It was part memoir and part reportage," Lewis said.
