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The big short : inside the doomsday machine


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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 doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't 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 can't pay their debts.

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A secret origin story. In the land of the blind. "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?". How to harvest a migrant worker. Accidental capitalists. Spider-man at the Venetian. The great treasure hunt. The long quiet. A death of interest. Two men in a boat


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