With a few new books out about the financial crisis, my list of "the best fucking books" about the crisis needs to be updated. By way of refresher, here is what I wrote last time to introduce the list:
I get asked all the time what the best fucking book is about the financial crisis. Well, here it is: A (partial) list of books about the past year’s financial crisis, sorted in decreasing order of the number of times the word “fuck” appears. In the spirit of rigorous scientific inquiry, I have also provided the number of fucks per page.
Michael Lewis has out his new book "The Big Short", and it turns out to be profanity-laced. Matter of fact, we have a new leader, at least in terms of fucks per page, if not in terms of total fucks. Then again, if Lewis had written a doorstopper like fuck-count leader Sorkin’s, he’d have more than double the f-shots.
Here is the newly revised list of best fucking books about the financial crisis, including Lewis’s book, but now sorted by fucks per page:
| Book | Author | # fucks | #/page |
| The Big Short | Lewis | 15 | .06 |
| Too Big to Fail | Sorkin | 20 | .03 |
| The Sellout | Gasparino | 10 | .02 |
| The Greatest Trade Ever | Zuckerman | 2 | .01 |
| Bailout Nation | Ritholtz | 0 | 0 |
| The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown | Morris | 0 | 0 |
| This Time is Different | Reinhart/Rogoff | 0 | 0 |
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