'The Lomas Financial Corp. is a perfectly hedged financial institution: It loses money in every conceivable interest-rate environment.'

"When I read it, I thought, Oh my God. This is like owning a gold mine. When I read that, I was the only guy in the equity world who almost had an orgasm."

"These guys are only beginning to understand how fucked they are. It's like being a Scholastic, prior to Newton. Newton comes along, and one morning you wake up: 'Holy shit, I'm wrong!'"

"No," he said, "I think we can agree about this: Your fucking book destroyed my career, and it made yours." With that, the former king of a former Wall Street lifted the plate that held his appetizer and asked sweetly, "Would you like a deviled egg?"

I remember reading Liar’s Poker soon after it came out, and being both amazed and somewhat awed. Michael Lewis’ recent article in Portfolio.com is pitch perfect.

2021-11-22: Pitch perfect it may have been, but I can find no trace of it now. Lewis’ site lists it, and there are bits of commentary around the place, but pursuing the links takes me nowhere. Maybe Michael has a copy someplace.

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