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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

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“The funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read.” (Tom Wolfe)^“Often profane, always hilarious, right on the mark.” (People)^“So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.” (Fortune)

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Michael Lewis, is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Flash Boys. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ WW Norton; Reprint edition (March 2 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 039333869X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393338690
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.08 cm

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Dave Schroeder

Must Read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 22, 2022

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Michael Lewis.s first book, chronicles his short career on Wall Street. As usual he tells a great story with amazing detail, yet is never dry, and you will laugh out loud at some of his experience s. It forms the basis of his many books on business and they only get better as they go. I have read most of his books but this one is hard to find so I bought it on Amazon. Glad Indid.

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Umar Ahmed

Hilarious, entertaining, and so well written

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 13, 2019

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Easily one of the most entertaining books about finance that I have read in the last several years. Well written, absolutely hilarious (I literally laughed out loud a handful of times), and so immersive. I could barely put the book down. As someone who works in finance, I found the characters so relatable, and the stories even more so. I've recommended this book to a lot of people over the years.

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Warren

Looking under the covers at a Wall Street firm.

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Michael gives the reader an inside look at one firm on Wall St. The story is not new: greed, power, money. It never changes. This look from the 1980's does lay some of the ground work for what happened in 2008. Of course Michael would not have realized it when he wrote this book. You may have your opinions of how the Street opporates, this just confirms how one firm went about their daily activities from the view point of a rookie working his way into and up the success ladder at a major Wall Street Firm.
Easy read.

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Michel Condoroussis

I have enjoyed a few of Michael Lewis' books in the past ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 9, 2016

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I have enjoyed a few of Michael Lewis' books in the past and although I did enjoy this one I found it less enticing than my previous reads, notably Flash Boys and The Big Short. The first third is dedicated to his training which seemed to drag on and the book got much better once he was working in the field. If you enjoy his investigative journalism, this one will fit the bill, however it is more a story of his experiences than a dig into a wall street practice.

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Michel Hebert

Banking: A liar's game

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The story of Michael Lewis is a very credible report on the enrollment and development of rookies in the investment banking world.
The managers make the money by sitting on their fat asses, and all the hard working ones creating the wealth suffer on a daily base to get a pity pay. And for the dreamers, you are not a professional investor working for clients, but a peddler for whatever has not sold in the bank inventory.

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Boring

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Good Writer

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Lewis has a captivating writing style. I have now read a couple of his books and have thoroughly enjoyed them. Liar's Poker itself gives the reader a peek at what the 80s trading desks were up to behind closed doors. Always interesting subject matter however, I recommend that you have decent baseline knowledge about finance before reading Liars Poker. Either way, worth picking up especially if $10 million salaries make you envious.

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Collin

Glad I read this

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 7, 2017

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Glad I read this. On to more of his work. I wish professors of journalism required that students understand exactly all the financial terms, tools, tactics, tricks, etc. that Lewis mentions in this book. IF you understood them, you would be a stronger financial news journalist.

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Ian Polk

The classic trading book still

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 13, 2021

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I read this a few years after I had become a foreign exchange dealer at a major investment bank and double-checked to see if anyone I knew had written it under a pseudonym because it was so accurate in its portrayal of everything to do with that world (they hadn't).
Aside from it's accuracy (to this day, by the way, nothing has changed), this book is hugely funny in places, extremely well-written, and packed with big characters (we all were back then) and exceptionally entertaining anecdotes, written by someone (Michael Lewis himself) as he went through the training program and early employment at Salomon Brothers - the behemoth of bond trading at that time.
Whether you are a would-be trader, current trader, ex-trader, or anyone else, you are highly likely to enjoy this book.

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Allan

Very engaging and a must read for anyone interested or involved in the world of finance.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 21, 2021

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A very engaging and interesting book about how the cogwheel leading up the Great Financial Crisis started. As someone that works in finance and a finance student, it was very interesting to read about the culture of Wall Street in the 80s, the very onset of Bond Trading, Salomon Brothers, securitisation and CMOs etc. A book recommended very much by most people in the industry, all based on real people too. So if you're into Michael Lewis' work or are interested in finance or have at least seen The Big Short, some of these names will be familiar to you.

As the book that gave Michael Lewis his break in his writing career, I must now read the rest of his work too !

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Neil Osborne

Amusing Anecdotes of Capital Market Failure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 6, 2018

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Michael Lewis’s account of the bond market in the 1980s is an enjoyable and informative read. He details the rise and fall of mortgage bond trading at Salomon Bros, the origin of the junk bond market and his own experiences as a bond salesman at Salomon Bros. Readers with a knowledge of investment banking will get most out of the book, but others might still find it a good read.

The anecdotes of misvalued bonds, the aggressive culture of Salomons, the short-termism and the dumping of unwanted bonds onto unsuspecting clients indicate that our capital markets are not as they should be. However, the stories are presented in such an amusing style that the reader can at least laugh about the problem. Read it and laugh, even if you should be crying.

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Mark Speed

Interesting inside story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 7, 2021

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This was published in 1989, and was quite a revelation at the time. It's very well-written by someone who was at the heart of investment banking during what I'd guess would be the point at which it turned into the full-on carnivorous greed-fest for which it's become notorious. Specifically, the author describes life in Salomon Brothers, which had hit paydirt by having a monopoly on certain kinds of bonds right when US fiscal policy made them take off.

One of the most interesting aspects of it is to read how the seeds of the Global Financial Crisis were sown a couple of decades prior to the event.

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David Smyth

A Michael Lewis Classic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 29, 2021

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Liar's Poker is probably Michael Lewis's best work in my opinion. He's such a natural storyteller that you'll want to read his tale even if you are only half interested in the subject. Michael Lewis is one of the few writers today that makes me take notice when he has something to say. I wouldn't take the time to recommend this title if I didn't think that it was worth the recommendation. It is!

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