The story of the 2008 financial crisis driven by the subprime mortgage fiasco. Thought this would be good on the heels of reading 1929. Lewis charges right in with little preamble, assuming the reader has basic understanding of shorting a market, bonds, investment banking, etc. Chapters are long with little pacing throughout. He introduces many characters, most that take on one of two personas (idiot banker or savant investor). I preferred Sorkin’s pacing and storytelling style to Lewis’s dense flow of information, templated characters and repeated takeaways (“it seemed crazy to them, but they couldn’t put their finger on what was actually happening” and innumerable iterations of that same theme). As a whole, the book paints Wall Street and investment banks in a negative light, run by greedy men that make clueless decisions on a whim or with a significant lack of understanding of actual facts.