Michael Lewis

La excepcional crónica del crac inmobiliario que originó la mayor crisis de los últimos 80 años. Descubre el libro en el que se ha inspirado la película que ya ha sido nominada a cinco Óscar. La gran apuesta es la excepcional cronica del crac inmobiliario que origino la mayor crisis de los ultimos ochenta años. Cuando en otoño de 2008 la economia estadounidense se hundio, arrastrando tras de si a buena parte del mundo desarrollado a una crisis de la que aun no hemos salido, a un grupo de personas no le sorprendio en absoluto. Eran unos cuantos inversores y analistas inteligentes que habian comprendido lo que estaba pasando, pero no dijeron nada, paralizados por el miedo y las posibles ganancias. La pregunta clave que plantea Michael Lewis es: ¿quien se dio cuenta del riesgo que suponia dar por sentado que los precios del sector inmobiliario seguirian siempre al alza? Un riesgo complicado, ademas, por la creacion de esos activos extraños y artificiales a partir de hipotecas dudosas. Para contestar esta pregunta, Lewis nos presenta una historia increible a traves de los personajes que la protagonizaron, plena de indignacion y oscura ironia.Reseñas:Probablemente el mejor libro de periodismo financiero de la historia.Felix Salmon, Reuters El mejor contador de historias de nuestra generacion.Malcolm Gladwell Nadie escribe con mayor agilidad narrativa sobre dinero y finanzas que Michael Lewis. Logra usar las historias de sus protagonistas para explicar la avaricia, la estupidez y la hipocresia de un sistema con una carencia notoria de supervision seria. Con un estilo parecido al de Tom Wolfe, Lewis consigue introducir al lector de modo colorido en el mundo darwiniano del mercado de bonos.Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think What a story it is Sunday Times You ll love it full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy Tim Harford In 1969 two men met on a university campus Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky They were different in every way But they were both obsessed with the human mind and both happened to be geniuses Together they would change the way we see the world An enchanted collaboration During the final pages I was blinking back tears The New York Times My favourite writer full stop Engages both heart and brain like no other Daily Telegraph Brilliant a wonderful book a masterclass Spectator Psychology s Lennon and McCartney Lewis is exactly the storyteller they deserve Observer

Cuando el periodista y escritor superventas Michael Lewis le conoció por primera vez, Sam Bankman-Fried era el multimillonario más joven del mundo. Se había convertido en el líder de Sillicon Valley al frente de FTX, la mayor plataforma de intercambio de criptodivisas, que estaba experimentando un crecimiento exponencial. En 2023, Bankman-Fried fue declarado culpable de fraude y lavado de dinero, y podria pasarse el resto de su vida en la carcel.Hacia el infinito reconstruye la historia del meteorico ascenso y caida del rey de las criptomonedas. Paso de codearse con celebridades y lideres de paises que competian por su tiempo y dinero a ser arrestado despues de que su compañia se declarara en bancarrota. Tambien fue acusado de engañar a inversores y prestamistas y de robar miles de millones de dolares de FTX para costear sus lujos.¿Quien era este tipo desgreñado y mustio, siempre ataviado con pantalones cortos y calcetines blancos, que en las reuniones de Zoom jugaba a videojuegos? ¿Que escondia el veinteañero misterioso que hacia gala de una ambicion sin limites?Con este retrato psicologico, Lewis permite a los lectores acercarse a la mente del nerd que quiso construir un imperio financiero global. El relato de su auge y declive permite extraer una valiosa leccion sobre los problemas del modelo de negocio de la economia digital y los riesgos de no poner barreras a unos poderosos gurus tecnologicos que rechazan someterse a las reglas.

Lewis brilliantly describes Clark''s intensity and passion, his genius for technology and leadership and his impatience with convention. He also faithfully chronicles Clark''s ruthlessness, willingness to exact revenge on opponents and ability to casually upset people''s lives. The fact that these last qualities are described in almost complimentary terms reflects a Silicon Valley sensibility that they''re laudable. Los Angeles Times Book Review

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superb It is tremendous fun tremendously told The Times A fluid intellectual thriller Daily Telegraph From the global bestselling author of The Big Short the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid 19 It s a foreboding she said A knowing that something is looming around the corner Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold In January 2020 as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan China few really understood the magnitude of what was happening Except that is a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us kept making the same mistakes time and again This group saw what nobody else did A pandemic was coming We weren t prepared The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated traced and hunted the coronavirus who understood the need to think differently to learn from history to question everything and to do all of this fast in order to act to save lives communities society itself It s

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The Economist From the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire col