On: Michael Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead

[aresant]

I got about 10 pages into the paper and then that there's a good reason that I didn't get into Harvard.

Anybody up for compiling a summary?

[eavc → aresant]

Go listen to the "This American Life" pieces about Magnetar and about the financial collapse. They are enjoyable and make good snapshots to get some of the same information/ideas.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/T...

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/i...

[jacobolus → aresant]

The interesting part is the data itself. There’s really no shortcut to just marveling the tables directly.