It is interesting to see inside of a Wall Street firm at that time and to see the ethics (or lack thereof) - only on Wall Street is it acceptable to use your "customers" as a place to offload junk product that you do not want to keep for yourself. It omits the kindergarten in the middle.-Frederick Schwed, Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Two import… Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition): Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (25th Anniversary Edition) Hardcover – October 27, 2014. by. 2,159 reviews The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. 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. It is interesting to see inside of a Wall Street firm at that time and to see the ethics (or lack thereof) - only on Wall Street is it acceptable to use your "customers" as a place to offload junk … Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street available in Hardcover, Paperback, NOOK Book. "This is striking, but incomplete. Read an excerpt of this book! Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. I Chapter One Liars Poker IT WAS sometime early in 1986, the first year of the decline of my

Add to Wishlist. The book follows his short career at Saloman Brothers in the 1980's. ISBN-10: 039333869X ISBN-13: 9780393338690 Pub. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition): Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (25th Anniversary Edition) - Kindle edition by Lewis, Michael. The book follows his short career at Saloman Brothers in the 1980's. 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 of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Date: 03/15/2010 Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street.

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