Liar's Poker

Author: Michael Lewis
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 039333869X
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Liar's Poker

The time was the 1980s.Liar's Poker review. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rushRead full reviews of Liar's Poker.

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Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on

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From Library Journal As described by Lewis, liar's poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative ga

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Categories: Brokers->United States->Biography, Innovative Thinking, Brokers->United States->Biography. Contributors: Michael Lewis - Author. Format: Audiobook

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Mint, sealed set of delightful and presumably somewhat rare cards made by Hoyle (Stancraft brand) c.1961 to play the game "Liars Poker," a playing card relative of the well known "Liar's Dice" game. The deck was designed by (is copyrighted to) CR Jacob. The BoardGameGeek website describes a card game called "Liars Bluff" published in 1975, with cards designed by Jacob. I am not sure that it is the same game, but the design of the cards themselves is very similar, if not the same. Other than that mention, I have not found any reference to these cards in the literature available to me. The cards

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The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.