Liar's Poker

No Lie. Liar's Poker is an unvarnished glimpse into how market traders really think and behave.

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  • Author: Michael Lewis
  • Publisher: Norton, W.W. & Company, 320 pages

No Lie. Liar's Poker is an unvarnished glimpse into how market traders really think and behave. Even if you’re a novice investor with starter money in a retirement account, you’ll learn much from this trading-floor view of Wall Street.

Author Michael Lewis witnessed plenty of risque behavior, some abhorrent and even criminal, during his time as a bond trader for Goldman Sachs on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back in the 1980s. He saw all the shenanigans that led to the savings and loans crisis. Lewis intended this book to be a wake-up call. But he was both bemused and shocked later that many business students took it as “how-to-get-rich” guide in the decades that followed.

He continued illuminating the opaque corners of the financial world with subsequent books, such as The Big Short, his look at the 2008 market meltdown. Hollywood turned Lewis' book into a movie that won a 2016 Oscar for best screenplay.

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Why should Kiplinger readers give their time to this earlier 1989 title? Simple. Do you want to know how Wall Street really works? Liar’s Poker tells all.

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Nicole Duran
Senior Editor, The Kiplinger Letter
Nicole Duran is a senior editor overseeing government and political coverage. She previously was the managing editor for Congress at National Journal, where she was also executive editor of National Journal Daily, and a deputy managing editor for Foreign Policy. She's also been a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Washington-based reporter for The Deal, Roll Call, the American Banker and Congressional Quarterly. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University.