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The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

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On the surface, Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk is a book about the failures of the Trump administration.  This is why I resisted reading it for a long time, even after it was recommended to me, and even though I like Michael Lewis’s writing in general (I am setting aside the satirical(?) essay in which he gave pointers to men on how to get your wife to give up her high-status career so that she would have more time to pay attention to you, that […]

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

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Cannonball Bingo: Money! (And my first bingo!) I’ve had a fun time figuring out what books fit for what squares in Cannonball Bingo, but I didn’t know what to read for “Money!” Although I’m a fan of having money, and I’d definitely like enough that I don’t have to work and can travel all over the world, the topic doesn’t hold my interest. So, I went on a Google search to find a good book on a topic that I often find tedious. And I […]

The first thing they always did was run you.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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This book follows Billy Beane, the general manager (money guy, deals, trade, etc) of the Oakland Athletics through a season in the early 2000s as he’s three years in a new approach to baseball using statistical analysis (termed sabremetrics) to have a successful baseball season. Rather than a focus on traditional baseball values and certainly rather than trying to win specific games in micro ways, Beane employed a system of maximizing the benefit of certain parts of baseball, to win as many games over the […]

Adapt or Die

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

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BINGO MONEY! I admit that I chose to read this book because I needed something for the Money! bingo square.  I could have used my “read whatever you want” option, but I figured I would save that just in case.  I really like baseball though, so I figured that this book might not be a bad choice.  I was right. Having just watched the World Series between the LA Dodgers (a very high payroll team which means they can afford to get top expensive players), […]

Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit (CBR Bingo: Money)

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

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Funny enough, I’ve read Michael Lewis before, and I’ve seen The Big Short, but having never read the source book (and since the book from Lewis I have read is on a topic I’m VERY familiar with), I never realized how good he is at taking the unfamiliar and making it accessible. Because wow, do I know nothing about nothing about Wall Street. Depressingly, as Flash Boys shows, neither do most of the people on Wall Street. I must add this quote from the book because […]



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