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Liar’s Poker: The Definitive Guide to Michael Lewis’s Wall Street Classic

"Liar’s Poker is both a high-stakes gambling game played with the serial numbers on dollar bills and the title of Michael Lewis’s 1989 semi-autobiographical masterpiece. The book chronicles Lewis’s experience as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers during the late 1980s, exposing the cutthroat culture, the birth of mortgage-backed securities, and the evolution of modern investment banking. What is Liar’s Poker? Understanding the Book and the Game To understand "Liar’s Poker," one must distinguish between the literary work that defined a generation of finance and the actual game that served as a rite of passage for the "Big Swinging Dicks" of th..."

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