Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, (Hardcover)

from jobinsonlis

The three things I've gleaned from this book are as follows: 1) I don't understand anything about Wall Street and finance, 2) the people that work on Wall Street and in finance also don't really understand it, and 3) working on Wall Street sounds like possibly the worst job in the entire world bu...

from jrgoetziii

Not quite what I thought it would be but one has to give Lewis credit for great humor and an ability to make the arcane readable. His descriptions of high finance make complete sense, which is hard to do, while simultaneously carrying an implicit criticism of the inherent illogic behind them. Whi...

from SeriousGrace

For some reason people can't bring up Liar's Poker without mentioning Bonfire of the Vanities as well. It's almost as if Liar's Poker is the nonfiction counterpart to the fictional Bonfire of the Vanities. Yes, they are both about the innards of life on Wall Street in the mid 80s, but one could s...

from willszal

I was recommended this book in 2018 by a friend who was writing code for financial derivatives in Tokyo in the 1980s. I looked around for an audio edition at the time, but came up empty-handed. I just checked again, and it has just been re-issued by the author! Apparently the original copyright h...

from jontseng

The closest thing to the definitive account of high finance yet. Although the fact it hasn't been bettered in the last fifteen years says a lot about the relative attractiveness for BSDs of making money vs. writing about making money...