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The Big Short

by Michael Lewis
🎧 23 min listen Money & Investments

How a handful of oddballs bet against America and won - while Wall Street burned.

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Chapter 1 The mortgage bonds Wall Street sold as safe were deliberatel…

The mortgage bonds Wall Street sold as safe were deliberately engineered to fail. Rating agencies like Moody's and S&P gave AAA ratings to securities …

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The Big Short
In 2008, the global financial system collapsed - and
almost no one saw it coming. Almost. Michael Lewis follows
a ragtag group of outsiders who read the fine print Wall
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