Liar's Poker
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2022 by Greg Lippmann · said 14 times in 10 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Greg Lippmann (4), Ted Seides (1), Mark Johnson (1), Kieran Goodwin (1), Jonathan Farber (1), John Barber (1), James Clark (1), Jace Auby (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Liar's Poker, oldest first
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Liar's Poker inspired Greg Lippmann to join Wall Street despite its warnings
“So the beginning of the book, The Big Short, he said, well, he wrote Liar's Poker as a cautionary tale. He didn't want people to go into Wall Street, is what he thought. And people read that book, including me, and said, this is exactly what I want to do, righ…”
Dec 18, 2023 negative
Sernovitz: Modern fiction treats finance as a sensational backdrop
“Finance in fiction today usually has two main formats. One is we want to write about rich people in New York City. They need to have a job. We'll ask our college buddy who works at a hedge fund to give us some notes. Send some trades. We'll have corny names fo…”