ISBN10: 0393072231, ISBN13: 9780393072235, [publisher: WW Norton & Co] Hardcover Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Journalistic Style Guides: Very good hardcover with dust jacket. Clean pages.
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W W Norton & Co Inc, Date: 2010. Hardcover. New. 266 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. 2010. W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN 0393072231 9780393072235 [GB]

ISBN10: 0393072231, ISBN13: 9780393072235, [publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesnt shine, and the SEC doesnt dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who cant pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they werent talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liars Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikelyreally unlikelyheroes, Lewis fashions a story as ...
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W. W. Norton. Collectible - Very Good/Very Good. Date: 2010. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. 0393072231 (Q98) (M516)-2 . 2010. W. W. Norton ISBN 0393072231 9780393072235 [US]

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight rubbing to the edges and a PO signature to the front free paper. An outstanding copy of this follow up to "Liar's Poker" and the basis for the fine film starring Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, and Christian Bale. Uncommon in the first printing, particularly in this condition. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Date: 2010. W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393072231 US