Liar's Poker (eBook)

Michael Lewis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
320 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-06625-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liars 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 Streets premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liars Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied yearsa behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewiss knowing and hilarious insiders account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: 1980s • 1980s wall street culture • American business • best business memoirs • Bond Market • books about financial greed • Business Ethics • business memoir • Corporate Culture • Finance • Financial Markets • Greed • insider account • inside wall street trading • Investment banking • investment firms • michael lewis books • michael lewis wall street book • salomon brothers • salomon brothers history • the bond market explained • trading floor • Wall Street • wall street in the 80s
• ISBN-10: 0-393-06625-8 / 0393066258
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06625-8 / 9780393066258