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.
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...
Anna and Charlie Reynolds of St. George, Utah, were worried about losing their home to foreclosure last year. Then they got a lucky break--from an unl...
The characters in Michael Lewis's The Big Short are so nutty that they become wealthy by ignoring everyone on Wall Street, who maintained that the national housing market could never fall.
Speaking over lunch in a Midtown bistro, Michael Lewis and I had a conversation about how he became a writer, who has influenced him, and how he conjures the motivation to write.
Wall Street's biggest banks could be broken up by the U.S. Congress in the coming year in an eventual reckoning over the financial meltdown of 2008, "...
You could argue that The Big Short is about a lot of different things. But I read it as a story about the social, personal, and intellectual conditions that can produce dazzling rightness or staggering wrongness.
Of all the misdeeds carried out on the southern tip of Manhattan over the last decade, perhaps Wall Street's greatest fraud was to arrogate the very meaning of the American Dream.
Ever wish you had a crystal ball? Would have been convenient if there had been some warning about the kind of financial crisis we're facing now. It wo...
I recently interviewed author Michael Lewis about his new book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, and the financial meltdown and the bailout.
Obama did advance the financial reform agenda in his July 22 press conference by calling for a transaction fee for exotic instruments such as credit derivatives.
Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker appeared in front of Hudson Union Society earlier this month. He spoke for about an hour, and ...
Michael Lewis, the former Salomon Brothers trader who wrote "Liar's Poker" about the excesses of Wall Street during the 1980s, delivered a devastating...
Serial entrepreneur Penny Hersher worries about a talent-retention challenge if Wall Street eschews bonuses this year. In response to a Bloomberg arti...