Urgent Reminder: Michael Lewis is Awesome
Mar 2nd, 2010 by Carlos
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 a mancrush or whatever, but either way I have a serious infatuation with this man. And to make my point, I’ll point you in the direction of his latest article for Vanity Fair, which is an excerpt of his new book, The Big Short, which comes out March 15.
The article is about Michael Burry, an awkward guy that turns himself into a brilliant stock picker and overall investor. Sound familiar?
Hint: it starts with “W” and ends in “arren Buffett.”
Turns out Burry saw the sub-prime mortgage collapse before anyone else did and convinced some big investment banks to create a product that would allow him to short the whole thing.
It’s a super interesting read and I won’t go into much more detail. It’s also exciting because it means there’s a new book he’s been working on, which makes sense because he’s been kind of quiet recently.
With DFW passing away, Michael Lewis is at the top of my list of favorite authors. His latest is more vintage Michael Lewis goodness.
Seriously man, you rock!
Great article, thanks for passing it along.
So he’s married to Tabitha Soren the former MTV VJ? Nice.
That’s a different Tabitha Soren! He gets that question all the time…
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