The Money Culture

From the author of the national bestseller Liar's Poker comes an intrepid and merciless sharp-sighted safari through the financial jungles of the 1980s.

It was the age that gave us Michael Milken and made the American Express card de rigueur; the age in which America's principal foreign export was the get-rich-quick scheme. And it was the age in which elderly investors would pay $4,000 apiece to discuss portfolios with Louis Rukeyser while cruising up the Amazon.

With devastating wit and flair for unveiling the smoke and mirrors of high finance, Michael Lewis takes a new look at these and other episodes from 1980s, giving us a book whose behind-the-scenes knowledge and razor-edged insight make it the last word on the money culture

• Introduction
• Part I: New World
• Christmas on Wall Street
• Leave Home Without It: The Absurdity of the American Express Card
• Eddie the Chop House Boy
• Bulldog Bull
• Mary Cunningham, Meet Ward Cleaver
• Franky's Longest Mile
• Leveraged Rip-Off
• Ski Lift Tiff
• Barbarians at the Trough
• The Mystery of the Disappearing Employees
• Mr. Wall Street Goes to Washington
• How Wall Street Took the S & Ls for a Ride
• When Bad Things Happen to Rich People
• People in Glass Penthouses…
• Milken's Morals and Ours
• Horatio Alger Trumped
• Taken for a Ride on the Customer's Yacht
• Part II: Old World
• "Do You Have a Fire in Your Belly?"
• Les Golden Boys
• Don't Cry for Me Guacamole
• Portrait of the American as a Bond Salesman
• What the British Can Learn from American History
• Slicing Up Europe for Fun and Profit
• Part III: Other World
• How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street
• The New York Investment Banker Abroad
• Japanese Takeout
• Pickens' Lickin'
• Kamikaze Capitalism
• The Japanese Art Bubble
• A Wall Street Yankee in the Imperial Court
• Acknowledgements
• Where and When They First Appeared

Confusing, with a sight feeling of nausea.