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high stakes, false confidence and a bad hand…

It's book review time again, real life is on the verge of getting busy in the very near future but I've still found some time to turn the pages on some random reads. This time it's something a bit different and more than a little disconcerting. It's a dose of real life as we get all late-noughties and cover the 2007-08 financial crash in The Big Short by Michael Lewis. It's the book that became the film you may have also seen, or rather in my case its the film what was the book as I watched the big screen version ages ago. As always all words here are expanded and revised from the review I posted recently on Amazon and Goodreads, all ill-judged opinions are, as ever, my own. The short version: a butterfly flaps its wings in Wall Street and the world falls over. The long?