Book: The Big Short

Author: Michael Lewis

Reviewer: David Hiscoe, Director, Communication Strategy, NCSU Libraries

Want some understanding of the incredibly irresponsible behavior that almost gave all of us another Great Depression?  Still don’t know what a CDO is?  Don’t understand why Wall Street needs careful attention from aggressive, disinterested regulators so perhaps we won’t have to live through something like this again?.  Want to know how almost everybody in Iceland got rich overnight–and then got very poor?  Moneyball’s Michael Lewis makes it all interesting.