“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.”

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

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