![]() But back in October 2005, Mr Reading Matters and I had a personal tour of the New York Stock Exchange, and I remember coming out of the building feeling slightly dizzy: I couldn’t get my head around the fact that we’d just been given an inside glimpse of the beating heart of capitalism.įast forward three years, and that beating heart seemed to be in cardiac arrest.Īnd it wasn’t just in New York the financial crisis swept through other places around the globe, including London, Iceland, Ireland, Greece and Portugal. I do not understand the inner-workings, or even the outer-workings, of Wall Street. ![]() Then, a few days later, I saw a review of the book on Material Witness, and decided I might like to read the book myself.įirst things first. Non-fiction – paperback Penguin 288 pages 2011.īack in February I bought The Big Short for Mr Reading Matters, because I knew he had loved Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker many moons ago. ![]()
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