Michael Lewis

"The Blind Side's" 20-20 Vision

Dan Glickman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment


Dan Glickman

The Blind Side leaves you with an infectious desire to not turn a blind eye, but rather to do something that matters in your own community.

Morgan Stanley CEO Calls for More Regulation of Wall Street at Vanity Fair-Bloomberg Event

Katya Wachtel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business


Katya Wachtel

Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack was cheekily ambushed by Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan Wednesday night.

Q&A with Michael Lewis (Part 1): The Rules of the Game Were Totally Screwed Up

Terrence McNally | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business


Terrence McNally

I recently interviewed author Michael Lewis about his new book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, and the financial meltdown and the bailout.

Michael Lewis Takes On Goldman Sachs In Bloomberg Column

bloomberg.com | Michael Lewis | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business


July 28 (Bloomberg) -- From the moment I left Yale and started working for Goldman Sachs, I've felt uneasy interacting with those who don't. It's n...

Michael Lewis On AIG: READ The Entire Vanity Fair Piece

vanityfair.com | Michael Lewis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business


Almost a year after A.I.G.'s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant....

Michael Lewis Attacks Goldman Sachs, Wall St.'s Political Influence (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan MCCarthy | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business


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 Discusses Bank Bailout, Slams Ratings Agencies On Rachel Maddow Show (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


Michael Lewis, author of "Liar's Poker," the fabled book about Wall Street in the '80s, appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" tonight to promote his la...

Michael Lewis: Wall Street Made This Mess And Is Making Fortune Cleaning It Up (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business


Michael Lewis, the former Salomon Brothers trader who wrote "Liar's Poker" about the excesses of Wall Street during the 1980s, delivered a devastating...

Michael Lewis on Warren Buffett

Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

The irony of Buffett is that his talent and his will are unfathomable, but his flaws are not. The one thing we can truly understand about him is the part of him that's just like the rest of us.

Vanity Fair Article Draws Outcries From Iceland

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 05.06.2009 | Media


Maybe Icelanders did not appreciate being depicted as "mousy-haired and lumpy." Maybe they did not want their folklore about elves to be reprinted in ...

The American Nightmare

Rob Fishman | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business


Rob Fishman

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.

Why Michael Lewis Is "The Best Business Journalist In The Country"

The Big Money | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media


Put simply, this financial crisis has solidified Michael Lewis' position as America's money laureate. And it's not just because he happened--as some c...

Michael Lewis, David Einhorn: Close Revolving Door Between SEC And Wall Street

New York Times | Michael Lewis and David Einhorn | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business


There are...a handful of...perfectly obvious changes in the financial system to be made, to prevent some version of what has happened from happening a...

Risking Our Best Talent? Send Them All to Double-A Birmingham!

Peter Schwartz | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business


Peter Schwartz

Serial entrepreneur Penny Hersher worries about a talent-retention challenge if Wall Street eschews bonuses this year. In response to a Bloomberg arti...

Michael Lewis Leaves Portfolio For Vanity Fair

Gawker | Ryan Tate | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media


It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bet...

Vas Deference: Michael Lewis Gets Vasectomy To Appease His Wife

Slate | Michael Lewis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Splayed on the operating table, staring at the back of a nurse scrubbing her hands, I was struck by the possibility that, in addition to its other cha...