Before he wrote The Big Short and Moneyball, before Sandra Bulloch saw The Blind Side, Michael Lewis published Liar’s Poker, a sometimes cynical, mostly thankful, and somewhat prescient account of his three years at Salomon Brothers. Having read Lewis’ book about the recent financial meltdown, I could not help but wonder “doesn’t anyone learn from experience?” as I saw eerie similarities in a book written two decades earlier. Based on this book, traders at Salomon Brothers seemed supercilious, short-sighted, and superficial. They may have made a great deal of money in the past but very little time was devoted to …