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“For a long time, that’s all writing was. No love notes. No eulogies. No stories. Just IOU six sheep.”
― Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
― Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
“The hand of God strikes swiftly, particularly when assisted by the hand of man.”
― The Iron King
― The Iron King
“The moment Salomon Brothers demonstrated the potential gains to be had from turning an investment bank into a public corporation and leveraging its balance sheet with exotic risks, the psychological foundations of Wall Street shifted, from trust to blind faith.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I have a job to do. Make money for my clients. Period. But boy it gets morbid when you start making investments that work out extra great if a tragedy occurs.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“But the more we looked at what a CDO really was, the more we were like, Holy shit, that’s just fucking crazy. That’s fraud. Maybe you can’t prove it in a court of law. But it’s fraud.” It”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Cecil’s 2025 Year in Books
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