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Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. [1] First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and the fictional The Bonfire ...
93 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Liar's Poker is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Jeff Santo, starring Richard Tyson, Caesar Luisi, Jimmy Blondell and Flea.
Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an American author and financial journalist. [ 3 ] He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker and The Big Short, explains in a 60 Minutes interview how the stock market is rigged against anyone without a fiber optic line to the stock exchanges. And ...
As an insider's look at the workings of a storied investment bank, the memoir is similar to Michael Lewis' classic Liar's Poker. But it's also grittier and more emotional, supplying a human face ...
John Halle Gutfreund[ 1 ] (14 September 1929 – 9 March 2016) was an American banker, businessman, and investor. He was the CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc, an investment bank that gained prominence in the 1980s. Gutfreund turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into a publicly traded corporation, [ 2 ] which started a trend in Wall ...
The Age of Financial Unreason began with the 1987 stock market crash, according to Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling Liar's Poker, who was a bond salesman in London at the time: "It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time."
Liar's Poker: The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future ( French: Poker menteur : les grandes puissances, la Yougoslavie et les prochaines guerres) is a 1998 book by Michel Collon. [1] It was originally written in French and was later translated to English. It speculates on the long-term goals of the United States and other great ...