Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis: The Volcker Rule Should Push Even Harder

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Video, Proprietary Trading, Business News, Financial Crisis, John Reed, Cnbc Interview, Volker Rule, Michael Lewis, Glass-Steagall, Business News

The Volker rule should push even harder to curb banks' bets with their own money than it would do as presently constructed, according to Michael Lewis...

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Michael Lewis: It's A Bad Idea To Give Millions To 24 Year-Olds Who Don't 'Know Anything Really'

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Wall-Street-Pay-Cuts, Video, Young Wall Street, Michael-Lewis-Liars-Poker, Business News, Michael Lewis, Wall Street Pay, Wall Street Bonuses, Financial Collapse, Business News

When the history books make their judgments about pre-crisis Wall Street, they'll come down hard on those salaries for twenty-somethings -- at least a...

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Movie Versus Book: Oscar Nominee 'Moneyball'

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Book News, 2012 Oscars, Moneyball Movie, Moneyball Book, Michael Lewis, Moneyball Academy Award, 2012 Oscar Nominees, Oscar Night, Book Adaptations, Moneyball Oscar, 2012 Oscar Books, Books News

The rivalry between books and movie adaptations is as hotly disputed and long-standing as that of the Yankees and the Red Sox. Enraged fans hoot and h...

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Michael Lewis' Coach' To Be Made Into Movie

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: The Blind Side, Video, Moneyball, Michael Lewis Books, Michael Lewis Coach, Michael Lewis Coach Movie, Coach Book, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis Movies, Michael Lewis Novels, Coach Movie, Entertainment News

In case you haven't gotten your fill of impassioned sports movies based on books, Disney has just announced plans to adapt another story from "Moneyba...

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Author Michael Lewis Admits to Stealing Mug From Stephen Colbert

Jesse Draper | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis Interview, Moneyball, Boomerang, Michael Lewis, Talk Show, Colbert Report, Valley Girl Show, Mugs, San Francisco News
Jesse Draper

Michael Lewis has become recognized as a leading expert on the financial crisis, regularly appearing on various national talk shows. Recently, Lewis admitted to stealing mugs from every TV show he goes on.

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Who Blinks First? Bad Bets in Europe and America

Charles Kolb | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Federal Reserve, Michael Lewis, Jon Corzine, Eurozone, Greece, Student Loans, Europe Debt Crisis, Europe Financial Crisis, Business News
Charles Kolb

America's future can be seen clearly in today's European crisis over sovereign debt. What is not clear is the path our country will take to resolve our own economic crisis.

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Struggling East Bay Town Finally Recovers From Bankruptcy Nightmare

Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Vallejo Not Bankrupt, Video, Chapter 9, Solano County, Vallejo Bankrupt, Municipal Bankruptcy, Michael Lewis, California City Bankrupt, Vallejo Bankruptcy, San Francisco News

After spending three years as one of the highest-profile municipalities in the nation to go bankrupt, the Northern California city of Vallejo has emer...

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WATCH 'Moneyball' Author Discusses Film Adaptation On Daily Show: 'I Thought It Was Gonna Suck'

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Third World Countries, Iceland Financial Crisis, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Third World Travel, The Daily Show, John Stewart, Video, Books News

Last night on The Daily Show, Michael Lewis spoke with Jon Stewart about his newest book, "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World." His journalisti...

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California's Wild Ride: Of Arnold, Jerry, And Various Vanities Fair (And Otherwise)

William Bradley | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Vanity Fair, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Jerry Brown, Mark Paul, Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair Schwarzenegger, California Governor, Los Angeles News
William Bradley

Jerry Brown, oddly, isn't mentioned at all in a rambling feature in the new Vanity Fair which is seemingly about the challenges he faces and, ostensibly (given the title, "California and Bust"), the state he governs.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'I Was Made For The World'

The Huffington Post | Sasha Bronner | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Michael Lewis, Chuck Reed, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanity Fair Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paige Meyer, Vanity Fair, Video, Los Angeles News

I'm not into the local stuff. I was made for the world. That's Arnold on himself in Vanity Fair's very in-depth interview with the Governator regar...

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'Moneyball' Author Lays Into Critic's Poor Review

The Moviefone Blog | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Moneyball Review, Moneyball Keith Law Review, Michael Lewis, Brad Pitt, Moneyball, Moneyball Movie, Moneyball Brad Pitt, Books News

"Billy [Beane] called me and said Keith Law had sent him his review. I looked at it and I thought, What's he talking about?" Lewis told Moviefone earl...

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Toiletries Delivery for Travelers: The Next Big Idea?

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Darren Dahl | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Small Business Success Stories, The Next Big Idea?, Suitearrival, Michael Lewis, Starting a Business, Travel Toiletries Delivery, Small Business News

Everyone knows that air travel is a lot less fun than it used to be. Not only do we have to pay extra for things that used to be free, such as food an...

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Michael Lewis' Prophetic 1989 Japan Disaster Piece

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Big Short, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Michael Lewis, Japan, Tokai Bank Report, Wall Street, Liars Poker, Business News

Months before publishing 1989's Liar's Poker, the canonical account of life inside 1980s Wall Street, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, wrote an...

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A Perelman Cultural Mashup, or: Oh, Those Oscars!

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Twitter, Michael Lewis, Oscars, Charles Bukowski, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, S.J. Perelman, Snooki, Academy Awards, Books News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

During this year's Oscars, there was so much live blogging it could make you pine for zombies. Not that dead Tweeting would have been an upgrade, ther...

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Michael Lewis Sued For 'The Big Short'

Reuters | Grant McCool | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Lewis, best-selling author of "The Big Short" about the mortgage meltdown, has been sued for defamation by an asset man...

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Adam Smith and the Wall Street Bonuses

John Paul Rollert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Michael Lewis, Jamie Dimon, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Adam Smith, Business News
John Paul Rollert

In Smith's vision of capitalism, market failure and moral failure went hand-in-hand. Yet Smith realized that it was vanity, not prudence or restraint, that kept the wheels of capitalism turning.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's Days Are Numbered, But It's a Big Number

Lawrence G. McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fannie Mae, Congress, Freddie Mac, Barack Obama, Dodd-Frank Bill, Chapter 11, Michael Lewis, Hensaling, New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Fcic, Fhfa, Business News
Lawrence G. McDonald

Is there anything new we have learned in the FCIC's report? Are there clear recommendations that will help prevent another financial crisis? No. The commission was divided by politics.

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McLean and Nocera's All the Devils Are Here

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bear Stearns, Michael Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Bethany McLean, Real Estate Bubble, Business Books, Real Estate Books, All the Devils Are Here, Business News
Robert Teitelman

This is the deep background of the financial crisis -- a clear-eyed introduction to the post-industrial jungle with its networks, frictionless interchanges, murky sense of accountability and unexpected consequences.

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All the Devils Are Here: Best Business Book of the Year

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bethany McLean, Gary Rivlin, Broke USA, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Financial Crisis, Joe Nocera, Wall Street, Nocera Mclean, All the Devils Are Here, Joe Nocera All the Devils Are Here, Henry Paulson, Hank Paulson, Vanderbilt, The Fed, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Cnbc, Gregory Zuckerman, American College, McNay Settlement Group, Lotteries, Books, Too Big to Fail, Vanity Fair, Kentucky, Fannie Mae, Don McNay, Michael Lewis, Fortune Magazine, Jim Cramer, Structured Settlements, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Personal Finance, Roger Lowenstein, Business News
Don McNay

McLean and Nocera don't give us an idea as to where to look for angels. But the book is comprehensive, and I feel certain that all the devils are here.

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Michael Burry, Profiled In 'The Big Short,' Bets On Farmland, Gold

bloomberg.com | Jon Erlichman and Dakin Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gold Investments, Hedge Fund Managers, Scion Capital, The Big Short, Gold, Banks, Michael Lewis, Farmland, Michael Berry Website, Michael Burry, Business News

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market's plunge, said he is investing in farmable land, ...

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Former Fed Chief Fights To Keep His Reforms Airtight

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Dodd-Frank Act, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Michael Lewis, Proprietary Trading, Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, Business News

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, wants the rule that bears his name to be as airtight as possible, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...

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Michael Lewis: Wall Street Dodging Reform By Shifting Traders

Bloomberg | Michael Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Proprietary Trading, Dodd-Frank, Wall Street, Economy, Bank of America, Business News, Trading Groups, Michael Lewis, Business News

A few weeks ago we asked a simple question: Why are the same Wall Street banks that lobbied so hard to dilute the passages in the Dodd-Frank financial...

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Proprietary Traders Move To Hedge Funds, As Regulation Limits Risk-Taking At Banks

Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Dodd-Frank Act, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Ubs, Proprietary Trading, Hedge Funds, Bank of America, Michael Lewis, Japan, Business News

If Wall Street is getting "boring" in response to new regulations, the traders themselves are resisting that trend. Bloomberg News reports that "doze...

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William Alden

The New 'Hot' Wall Street Trend: 'Boring' Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Proprietary Trading, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Bank of America, Basel III, Paul Krugman, Michael Lewis, Dodd Financial Reform Bill, Business News

The "hot" trend on Wall Street, the Wall Street Journal reports, is to be boring. In response to the soon-to-be-implemented international banking reg...

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The Competing Black Swans of Climate Change

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hottest Summer on Record, Jared Diamond, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Big Short, Pakistan Floods, Sustainability, Michael Lewis, Climate Change, Guns-Germs-and-Steel, The Black Swan, Russia Drought, Green News
Andrew Winston

Since the last Ice Age, our climate has not changed enough to threaten the viability of the species. So we make the error of confirmation and assume that it won't change much going forward.

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