“Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as “clients,” is, by comparison, a refined… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,” he said. His mind was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“By the middle of 2011, roughly 30 percent of all stock market trades occurred off the public exchanges, most of them in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“For that purpose, partly as the result of Ranieri’s persistent lobbying, two new facilities had sprung up in the federal government alongside… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop.” Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“He shouted into the phone, “That is fuckin’ awesome. I mean fuckin’ awesome. I fuckin’ mean fucking awesome. You are one Big… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Piranha didn’t talk like a person. He said things like “If you fuckin’ buy this bond in a fuckin’ trade, you’re… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it’s amazing what people… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
“Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market… — Michael Lewis Copy Share
