谷雨书苑第五十三期 《The Big Short》by Fengsuo Zhou

April 3, 2016

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分享人: Fengsuo Zhou

中国陕西省西安市长安区人。1985年保送到北京清华大学物理系。其间组织了清华迄今唯一的一次系学生会直接选举。天安门广场抗议运动参与者,旧金山湾区NGO人道中国创办人。芝加哥大学MBA。现从事量化选股模型研究。热爱自由,崇尚公义,欣赏上帝创造的一切美善。读书广杂,喜欢电影,热衷户外活动,自然有水的地方都会到此。 维基百科链接

Fengsuo Zhou先生也是第九期读书分享The Great Dissent和第三十一期读书分享潘霍华:牧师,殉道者,先知,谍报员的主讲人。

分享题目: 《The Big Short》

源自美国房贷市场,席卷全球的金融危机摧毁了很多人的生计,甚至动摇了对自由资本主义的信心,对于未来世界经济走向依然有长久影响。Michael Lewis 的畅销书《Big Short》描述几个预见金融危机并获利的投资人,揭示了这场危机中的主要角色和产生机制。HELOC,MBS, CDO, CDS,这些金融产品,背后是有趣深远的故事和人性的征战。Lewis成名于房贷市场创新的投行生活《Liars Poker 》,20年后同样关于房贷市场的这本书是最值得一读的金融文学。本书去年被拍成电影,获得奥斯卡最佳影片提名。

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书目介绍

《大卖空:预见史上最大金融浩劫之投资英雄传》(英语:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine)是一本由迈克尔·刘易斯所著的2000年代泡沫经济题材书籍。W. W. Norton & Company将本书发行于2010年3月15日。它成为了《纽约时报》二十八周畅销书排行榜。

The Big Short describes several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–08. The book also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the market or goes against the grain. The work follows people who believed the bubble was going to burst, like Meredith Whitney, who predicted the demise of Citigroup and Bear Stearns; Steve Eisman, an outspoken hedge fund manager; Greg Lippmann, a Deutsche Bank trader; Eugene Xu, a quantitative analyst who created the first CDO market by matching buyers and sellers; the founders of Cornwall Capital, who started a hedge fund in their garage with $110,000 and built it into $120 million when the market crashed; and Michael Burry, an ex-neurologist who created Scion Capital. The book also highlights some people involved in the biggest losses created by the market crash: like Merrill’s $300 million mezzanine CDO manager Wing Chau; Howie Hubler, infamously known as the person who lost $9 billion in one trade, the largest single loss in history; and Joseph Cassano’s AIG Financial Products, which suffered over $99 billion in losses.

作者介绍

迈克尔·刘易斯(英文:Michael Lewis,1960年10月15日-),美国当代报告文学作家、财经记者,毕业于普林斯顿大学和伦敦经济学院。大学主修艺术史,在伦敦政经学院取得经济硕士学位,然后在投资银行所罗门兄弟伦敦分公司当债券交易员。他所写的畅销书包括《说谎者的扑克牌(老千骗局)》、《将世界甩在身后》(The New New Thing)、《点球成金》(Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game)和《弱点:比赛进程》等。其中《老千骗局》和《将世界甩在身后》同被《福布斯》评为“20世纪最具影响力的20部商业书籍”。目前他是《名利场》的特约编辑。

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include Liar’s Poker (1989), The New New Thing (2000), Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006), Panic (2008), Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (2009), The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010), and Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011). He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009. His most recent book, Flash Boys, which looked at the high-frequency trading sector of Wall Street, was released in 2014.

时间和地址:

2016年4月3日,周日下午4:30pm - 7:00pm
Los Altos Library Program Room, 13 S San Antonio Rd, 1st Floor, Los Altos, CA 94022


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