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The Big Short

Michael Lewis
2010 · 291 pages

Michael Burry, a one-eyed doctor turned investor, read the mortgage documents no one else opened and bet against American housing. Lewis turns credit default swaps into a thriller about who saw it coming.

★ 4.7