Troubalnt a book that explains the workings of the economic crisis and CDS and CDO mechanisms that exacerbated the subprime earthquake. We must recognize Mr. Lewis a real talent for décomplexifier all financial mechanisms and describe such a crisis with a mixture of human sensitivity and romantic. The book still leaves a bitter taste: it is ultimately those Shorte the subprime market (who anticipated their fall) that helped make this liquid market speculation créditsrisqués and have intensified the crisis and picked up the money from the American taxpayer who had assured the bad paris AIG and Merrill Lynch among others. All this reminds us that scholarship well when there is a loser there is always a winner on the other side of the table ...