“I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.”

— Michael Lewis , book The Big Short

Prologue, Poltergeist, p. xiii (See also: Liar's Poker)
The Big Short (2010)

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