The Big Short
A work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the build-up and collapse of the U.S. housing bubble in the 2000s. Lewis follows a handful of financial outsiders who foresaw the crisis and found ways to bet against the subprime mortgage market.
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Ranked #494 of 1942 · 291 pages · Published 2009
Mentioned 2× on The Joe Rogan Experience across 2 episodes, most recently on Nov 16, 2022.
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