The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
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The firm was making bigger bets than it would ever be good for and nobody in the executive office seemed to understand or care. To criticize the firm’s direction was to be branded a traitor and tossed out the door.
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The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
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imagine that Joe Sixpack offered to sell you a CDS on your $320,000 loan to your friend for $1,600 a year for five years. Joe is doing well, has a million-dollar house with no debt, and is therefore “good for the money.” Happy with $1,600 a year in extra income, Joe continues to sell CDSs on residential mortgages. Unregulated, he sells a thousand j
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