The Big Short

The 1 New York Times bestseller a brilliant accountcharacter-rich and darkly humorousof how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. 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 securitie