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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.

Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible—the free fall of the American economy—finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.

Michael Lewis’s splendid cast of characters includes villains, a few heroes, and a lot of people who look very, very foolish: high government officials, including the watchdogs; heads of major investment banks (some overlap here with previous category); perhaps even the face in your mirror. In this trenchant, raucous, irresistible narrative, Lewis writes of the goats and of the few who saw what the emperor was wearing, and gives them, most memorably, what they deserve. He proves yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times. More…

Read an excerpt in Vanity Fair

264 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-393-07223-5
March 2010
Jacket design: Darren Haggar

www.wwnorton.com

Financial Times

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Canary Wharf

bad bad bank

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What?!? Microsoft's stock price dropped $10? Is Windows 7 that bad?

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Note: moments after this photo was uploaded to Flickr, it was published as an illustration in an undated (Mar 2010) Squidoo blog titled "The Most Random Lens Alive." It was also published as an illustration in an undated (Mar 2010) EveryBlock NYC blog, titled "zipcode: 10025, as well as a related EveryBlock NYC blog page titled neighborhoods: upper west side."

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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009 (as shown in this Flickr set): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."

As I indicated when I first started this project, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.

I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.

With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.

The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past three years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...

stockmarket

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stockmarket close

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SORTIR - Tour de la Bourse

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CHILLIN

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Corporations Whizz On By...

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And they are all lit up in orange at Canary Wharf (added note)

Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

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Frankfurt's shiny twin towers, home to the "Deutsche Bank".

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A 1 COIN

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Billion dollar gold coin

goldman_shares

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Detail shot of an old Shares certificate

Shares Certificate

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Detail shot of an old Shares certificate

JPM-010510

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Neurofinance Inversor Arriesgado vs Conservador

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Neurofinance inversor arriesgado vs conservador.

Neurofinance es una nueva ciencia que aplica la neuro tecnología al comportamiento del inversor de mercados financieros.
En la fotografía, la captura del cerebro de la izquierda muestra como las neuronas del cerebro "arden" cuando se ejecuta una operación de trading arriesgada. Sin embargo, el cerebro de la derecha muestra las neuronas cuando un trader intenta evitar pérdidas.

Digamos que estamos en los balbuceos iniciales en cuanto al Neurofinance, los antecesores de esta ciencia incluyen los conocidos Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Game Theory, y Neuroeconomics. Mientras las tres primeras técnicas emplean conceptos basadas en las ciencias del comportamiento, en particular la psicología social, las prácticas del Neurofinace se basan en técnicas de Neuro Ciencia utilizando la imagen de la actividad cerebral de scanners PET y fMRI.

Neurofinance is a new science that analyzes financial markets by applying neurotechnology to trading behavior.

www.analisistecnicoakrabolsa.com

Coal Fell Unexpectedly - Postcard

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STOCK EXCHANGE NOTES.
"Coal fell unexpectedly!"

Date: 1906
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: P.V.B., Raphael Tuck and Sons (Humorous Series #1179)
Postmark: July 10, 1949, Quincy, Massachusetts
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This postcard is somewhat interesting in that it was postally used more than forty years after it was produced.