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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 […]

The Beatles of Behavioral Economics

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

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As I’m sure has been obvious from my reviews, I’m a behavioral economics fiend. I love economics as the study of human behavior, particularly explaining irrational or unexpected human behaviors. I’ve read dozens of books on the subject, and many of them reference the same studies, so much so that I’ll read half of a sentence and think “oh, this one where people think that a coin flipped ten times as heads will be tails next because it’s “due,” instead of it being the same […]

More ways Wall Street can screw you

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

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I’ve been procrastinating writing this review because, while Michael Lewis is one of my favorite nonfiction writers, this book proved to be a bit of a struggle for me. Maybe that’s because I’m too jaded to be surprised that banks and stock traders had found yet another way to screw over the little guy. Maybe it’s because everything I know about the stock market I learned from Trading Places, so if it’s not about pork bellies or frozen concentrated orange juice, it doesn’t arouse my […]

The world is full of garbage people.

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

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So, I don’t mean the world is full of people made of garbage.  I mean that many human beings, too many (though that is probably subjective), are living embodiments of Mos Eisely, wretched hives of scum and villainy.  These two books by Michael Lewis are about those people. The Big Short, now a movie that I have not seen, is about the people who, in a way, foresaw the financial recession of 2008 and profited from it.  Immensely.  Funny though, those people are not the […]

A great book about two things I am terrible at: money and math. #CBRBingo – True Story

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

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Smart people who think outside the box are so much fun to read about. I read this book really fast, and it was enjoyable to read the whole way through. I’ve never read a Michael Lewis book before, but I might consider reading more now. He has a simple, clean style that is really efficient at getting his story across, and he has an instinct for the best way to use his material. And he has some great underlying material here. As he notes in […]



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