![]() ![]() ![]() He starts as a financial analyst, where he resists pressure to assign optimistic ratings to companies that don’t deserve them. This is where Lewis first hears of Steve Eisman.įrom the beginning of his financial career, Eisman was a rebel. Shortly after the subprime mortgage bond bubble bursts in 2007, Lewis has a conversation with the financial analyst Meredith Whitney, who gives Lewis a list of people who successfully predicted the crash and who were able to profit off of it by taking short positions. To his surprise, Wall Street continues to evolve so that the fast times in the 80s now seem quaint. He thought that the culture there was ridiculous and unsustainable, so he set out to capture it in his first book, Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis remembers what it was like to be a 24-year-old trader at the Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers. ![]()
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