An international bestseller on an incredibly relevant and important topic. The book by journalist Michael Lewis tells the story of four traders who outplayed the big banks and profited from the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. The author was interested in the mysterious and ever-increasing losses in the mortgage lending market that the big Wall Street banks suffered. In an atmosphere of complete collapse and chaos, personal tragedies occurred: the best, brightest and certainly the most selfish employees in the world began to commit suicide en masse. Someone had to break this system! A few traders who knew next to nothing about bonds and mortgages did just that and made billions of dollars. How? They were able to see what even the experts could not see. The story of their success, exciting as a detective story, is read in one breath.