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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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.
“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.”
— Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Financial crisis, systemic risk, contrarian investing, collective delusion
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.
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.