The lying game

The ink on his Princeton and London School of Economics diplomas was still fresh when Michael Lewis landed a position as a trainee at Salomon Brothers, then one of Wall Street's most established institutions. Over the next three years, Lewis worked his way up from trainee to broker, making millions of dollars for the firm (and himself) in what became known as the "modern gold rush." In The Lying Game, Lewis describes, with a touch of irony, all the ways Wall Street turned money into more money and how brokers managed to maintain their sanity in the face of daily financial statements, providing an accurate account of a time of huge profits and abysmal losses, when fortunes could be made or lost overnight.