Michael Lewis citations (40 citations)

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Michael Lewis: Citations en anglais

“The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Three, " How Can A Guy Who Can't Speak English Lie?", p. 73

“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 107

“the more he studied Buffet, the less he thought he could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffet was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Two, In the Land Of The Blind, p. 35

“The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Ten, Two Men In A Boat, p. 244

“Ever since grade school, when his father had shown him the stock tables at the back of the newspaper and told him that the stock market was a crooked place and never to be trusted, let alone invested in, the subject had fascinated him.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Two, In the Land Of The Blind, p. 35

“The SEC staffer argued that it was unfair that high-frequency traders couldn’t post phony bids and offers on the exchanges to extract information from actual investors without running the risk of having to stand by them.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 105

“All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Epilogue, Everything Is Correlated, p. 258
The Big Short (2010)

“Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Three, " How Can A Guy Who Can't Speak English Lie?", p. 80

“"Liquidity" was one of those words Wall Street people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 108

“It was neither healthy nor good when public stock exchanges introduced order types and speed advantages that high-frequency traders could use to exploit everyone else. This sort of inefficiency didn't vanish the moment it was spotted and acted upon. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 233

“I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Prologue, Poltergeist, p. xvii
The Big Short (2010)

“A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Two, In the Land Of The Blind, p. 29

“For geniuses, they are really dumb,” she said. “Some of them are really pampered: They can’t even put together a cardboard box. They don’t think you do something. They think you call somebody.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 188, quoting Tara McKee

“The more money to be made gaming the financial markets, the more people would decide they were put on earth to game the financial markets – and create romantic narratives to explain to themselves why a life spent gaming the financial markets is a purposeful life.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 266

“He now suspected that every human being who knew how high-frequency traders made money was making too much money doing it to stop and explain what was going on.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 55

“The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants. Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 101

“The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn’t know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer geeks did not respond rationally to big, hairy traders hollering at them.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 93

“Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”

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Michael Lewis

Source: Boomerang (2011), Chapter 2, p.17

“The U. S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that a nanosecond had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all. What had once been the world’s most public, most democratic, financial market had become, in spirit, something like a private viewing of a stolen work of art.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 69

“The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 122

“The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Nine, A Death Of Interest, p. 225

“Thus the only Goldman Sachs employee arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of a financial crisis Goldman had done so much to fuel was the employee Goldman asked the FBI to arrest.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 148

“The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 116

“They traded in the market the way card counters in a casino played blackjack: They played only when they had an edge. That’s why they were able to trade for five years without losing money on a single day.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 263-4

“The best way to manage people, he thought, was to convince them that you were good for their careers. He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 26

“Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U. S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 98

“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter One, A Secret Origin Story, p. 14

“Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Nine, A Death Of Interest, p. 209

“Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.”

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Michael Lewis livre The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Three, " How Can A Guy Who Can't Speak English Lie?", p. 91

“The relationship of the big Wall Street banks to the high frequency traders, when you think about it, was a bit like the relationship of the entire society to the big Wall Street banks. When things went well, the HFT guys took most of the gains; when things went badly, the HFT guys vanished and the banks took the losses.”

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Michael Lewis livre Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 264

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