Posted in Books, Good Reads on Mar 26th, 2010
Just finished Lewis’ latest book, The Big Short, and I had to get something down before I lose the buzz the book left me with. Michael Lewis’ book is the most informative, detailed, clear, and entertaining account of the subprime-mortgage disaster that brought the economy to its knees. If you’ve read When Genius Failed or [...]
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Posted in Finance on Mar 15th, 2010
To celebrate the release of my favorite author’s new book, The Big Short, I wanted to share the interviews 60 minutes aired last night that shed some more light on the stories in his new book. In case you missed my Michael Lewis is awesome post, check out the Vanity Fair excerpt of his book. [...]
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Posted in Good Reads on Mar 2nd, 2010
For those of you that don’t know, I often try to market myself as the “Michael Lewis of personal finance.” Don’t believe me? Here is my author signature over on Wisebread: See? I told you. And if it was totally up to me, I’d sign off with something like this: Call it a bromance or [...]
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Posted in Finance, Writing on Dec 23rd, 2009
Michael Lewis is an awesome writer. Among my favorite books are Moneyball, Liar’s Poker, and The Blind Side. But all the books aside, he’s written some of the best newspaper/magazine pieces I’ve ever read. From NFL kickers and Cuban baseball, to the craziness of the financial crisis. The man can write about about anything and [...]
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