Michael Lewis (18 kníh)
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Michael Lewis Big Short CZKniha Big Short hladce a poutavě proniká do nitra amerického trhu s hypotékami v době před vypuknutím krize v roce 2008, která záhy přerostla v celosvětovou krizi finanční. Autor využívá své kontakty ze světa velkých financí a prostřednictvím svědectví bezprostředně zainteresovaných lidí a vlastní suverénní orientace v prostředí nám předkládá vyprávění, jaké jsme o této „nejčistší finanční ekonomické pohromě v…
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Michael Lewis Big Short ENWe fed the monster until it blew up ... While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in…
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Michael Lewis Big Short ENThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts.The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case,…
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Michael Lewis Big ShortWhile Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book tells the story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.
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Michael Lewis Boomerang ENIn Boomerang Michael Lewis, the international bestselling author of The Big Short, Liars' Poker, The Blind Side and Moneyball, turns his trademark wit to the subject of how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous…
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Michael Lewis Boomerang ENThe tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many…
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Michael Lewis Bumerang CZMichael Lewis je výjimečně nadaný vypravěč, který dokáže psát vtipně a napínavě i o tématech jako evropská dluhová krize, Mezinárodní měnový fond nebo Evropská centrální banka. Ve své knize Bumerang vezme na vzrušující cestu kolem světa postiženého ekonomickou krizí i čtenáře, který v životě nenahlédl ani do finanční rubriky svých oblíbených novin. Při tom mu ukáže, jak irské banky potopily svou zemi, jak řecký stát…
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Michael Lewis Flash Boys ENMichael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to…
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Michael Lewis Flash Boys ENThe story of Michael Lewis's new book is so hot that we can't talk about it yet... All we can say is that it involves Wall Street and features a cast of misfits and oddballs doing things with stupefying amounts of money and data that will have you by turns shocked, outraged, laughing, tearing your hair out, cheering - but throughout sitting on the very edge of your seat. The story is so big, so vitally important to…
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Michael Lewis Flash BoysMichael Lewis enthüllt in seinem neuesten Buch die Geschichte einer Gruppe genialer Wall-Street-Außenseiter. Sie haben herausgefunden, wie Insider die Börse zu ihrem Vorteil manipulieren und ohne Risiko Milliarden absahnen...
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Michael Lewis Jako blesk CZČtyři roky po svém bestselleru Big Shortse Michael Lewis vrací na Wall Street, aby mohl podat zprávu o nových technologických predátorech, kteří vyrazili na lov v džungli akciových burz. Představte si, že si jdete koupit rohlík a jakmile ho vezmete do ruky, jeho cena poskočí nahoru. Chcete si koupit máslo – a hned je dražší i máslo. A tak to je se vším a v každém obchodě. Jak byste se v takovém světě cítili?…
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Michael Lewis Lhářův poker CZVe své prvotině Lhářův poker popisuje Michael Lewis, nadaný a vtipný vypravěč a posléze autor mnoha bestsellerů, svůj vstup do světa velkých financí, tedy léta 1985 – 1988, kdy pracoval na obchodním parketu Salomon Brothers v New Yorku a Londýně. Kniha však má podstatně širší záběr a shrnuje zásadní informace o životě hlavních firem na Wall Street v průběhu celých osmdesátých let, která Lewis důkladně prostudoval.…
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Michael Lewis Liar's Poker (flipback) ENFUNNY, FRIGHTENING, BREATHLESS AND HEARTLESS, LIAR`S POKER IS A TALE OF HYSTERICAL GREED AND AMBITION SET IN AN OBSESSED, ENCLOSED WORLD. From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis`s pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world`s most powerful and profitable merchant…
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Michael Lewis The Blind Side ENThe young man at the centre of this 'compelling book' (The Economist) will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When Michael Lewis introduces him to the reader, he is one of thirteen children by a crack-addicted mother; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday or any of the things a child might learn in school - such as how to read or write. Nor has he ever…
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Michael Lewis The Blind Side ENWhen we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback…
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Michael Lewis The Fifth RiskThe phenomenal new book from the international bestselling author of The Big Short'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that d
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Michael Lewis The Undoing Project ENDaniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural…
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Michael Lewis The Undoing ProjectIn 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind - and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way we see the world.
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