Author:
Narrator: Michael Lewis
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jul 2001
Genre: Business & Economics - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 5
Timing the market, whether in stocks or megatrends, is a chancy game. Few can hope to win at it for long. Fortunately, Lewis the observer, alert to the family-room comedies of manners that play out under the economic headlines, gets as much space in the book as Lewis the prophet. Whether they represent a new world order or the latest bout of the old insanity, the pranks he so sharply depicts will still amuse.
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