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Description

The author of the best-selling Liar's Poker offers a witty, trenchant analysis of the world of high finance in the 1980s and the cult of wealth that produced such moguls as Michael Milken and Donald Trump. Reprint.

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In 1985, the average income of the ten best paid people on Wall Street rose from $29 million to $51 million, and everyone involved traded in his gold American Express card for platinum.

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  1. Michael Lewis (Author)
 

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