Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager is really entertaining and lucid if you are interested in a 'casual'(in tone) explanation of the global financial crisis. It's a set of interviews with "n+1 magazine" from the course of the year later expanded and collated.
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
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