New Blog 2: House Market Crash

Thursday, 8 November 2012

House Market Crash

The protagonist of Lewis's excerpt, Michael Burry, appeared to fall into the final category, if I believed VF's cover line: "The Unknown Genius Who Made a Fortune on Wall Street's Crash." Great. So he's not just wildly wealthy, he's also a genius. And unknown. If he plays blues guitar I'll have to start charging him rent for inhabiting my dreams. I figured the only psychology I was likely to glean from this man's story was some kind of lesson about schadenfreude. Surely this wasn't a largely psychological story told through the guise of the market crash.