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If it hasn&amp;#8217;t already, Michael Lewis&amp;#8217; &amp;#8220;The End&amp;#8221;&amp;#8212;a 9,000-word piece chronicling the fall of Wall Street published last week in &lt;em&gt;Conde Nast Portfolio&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8212;will be as widely read as his 1989 cautionary tale turned guidebook to greed, &lt;i&gt;Liar&amp;#8217;s Poker&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;In &amp;#8220;The End,&amp;#8221; the most enlightening (and entertaining) article on the credit crisis turned financial crisis yet, Lewis traces the mess back to its beginning, which coincides with the beginning of Lewis&amp;#8217; own career as a bond trader on Wall Street in the early 1980s, when a bank called Salomon Brothers was taken public by a man named John Gutfreund, considered by many to be the King of Wall Street and considered by Lewis to be the reason for its demise.&lt;/p&gt;

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