Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, author of “Liar’s Poker“, returns to Wall Street to tell the story of the big crash. He focuses on several people who were smart enough to short (i.e., bet against) the housing bubble. On almost every page I found myself amazed at just how crazy things were. Even the subjects of the book found themselves wondering if they’d missed something as the bubble got bigger and bigger and they seemed to be the only ones in the casino who realized that it was already burning down around the gamblers. If any book every proved that truth is stranger than fiction, this is it.
This is a great read full of interesting people doing arcane things while making and losing billions of dollars. Lewis does a good job of explaining how the whole corrupt system worked.