Psychology · 20 min
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By Michael Lewis
This episode reveals how a handful of outsiders saw the 2008 financial crisis coming, betting against a system everyone else believed was invincible, and what their story tells us about collective delusion.
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Psychology
Duration
20 min
What it is about
Financial crisis, systemic risk, contrarian investing, collective delusion
Who it is for
If you've ever felt a quiet unease about a widely accepted truth, or wondered what it takes to see systemic flaws others ignore, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
Michael Lewis possesses a rare gift for transforming complex financial narratives into gripping human dramas, revealing the characters and decisions that shape our economic realities with incisive clarity.
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