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ISBN: 9780393351590

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Market Machinery

A brisk, unsentimental read with Michael Lewis’s trademark clarity and bite.

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Michael Lewis’s sharp, clean prose
a serious look at market machinery

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finance stripped of its jargon haze
a tightly observed institutional reckoning

Book Details

Authors: Michael Lewis
Publisher: WW Norton
Published: March 24, 2015
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Economic Trends
Reading lane: Economic Trends

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#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword "Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the...

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#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword "Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.