Posts Tagged ‘Wall Street’
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Michael Lewis submitted this satiracal op-ed piece to the NY Times.
Shockingly, the Senate version of the bill more or less would require us to cease to trade derivatives entirely. This unpleasant idea was introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and it leads me to a point that is worth underscoring: We do not have a problem with the American people, we have a problem with American women. Elizabeth Warren, our TARP supervisor, continues to ask questions about what we did with our government money; Mary Schapiro has used her authority at the S.E.C. to sue Goldman Sachs. Of the four Republican senators who crossed over to vote with the Democrats, two were women — and one of the guys posed naked for Cosmopolitan magazine.
Tags: Financial reform, Wall Street
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Michael Lewis visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood.” This event took place on June 10, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Link from YouTube (47 min 5 sec)
Tags: Baseball, Basketball, Fatherhood, Home Game, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, movie, speech, Wall Street
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Michael Lewis, author of “Liar’s Poker,” talks with Kai Ryssdal about the end of Wall Street’s golden years and who and what he thinks are to blame for today’s fiscal calamity.
Marketplace interview, June 29, 2009
Now people don’t swallow the argument that Wall Street knows what it’s doing. People are, if anything, more skeptical than they should be about Wall Street. So that’s why I think it’s come to an end. That belief, the faith in Wall Street has collapsed.
Tags: Finance, Marketplace, Michael Lewis, Wall Street
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria talks to ‘Liar’s Poker’ author Michael Lewis about the economic crisis and future of Wall Street.
Fareed Zakaria:GPS interview, June 7, 2009 (16 min 12 sec)
Tags: economic crisis, Fareed Zakaria, Finance, Michael Lewis, Wall Street
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
New York Times Op-Ed, with David Einhorn (January 3, 2009)
This is one reason the collapse of our financial system has inspired not merely a national but a global crisis of confidence. Good God, the world seems to be saying, if they don’t know what they are doing with money, who does?
Link
Tags: David Einhorn, Michael Lewis, New York Times, Wall Street
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine (December 2008 issue)
The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
Link
Tags: Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, Finance, Michael Lewis, Wall Street
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Conde Nast Portfolio (December 2007 issue)
Really, he just wanted to be a success. How that happened, he didn’t much care. So in 1987, at the peak of the bull market, he landed a job with investment firm E.F. Hutton in Los Angeles. A few weeks into Blaine’s training program, E.F. Hutton collapsed following a check-kiting scandal and was sold to Shearson Lehman. Blaine’s training at Lehman consisted of a monthlong class, which focused mainly on overcoming customers’ objections, and a close reading of the bible on how to peddle stocks to people you’ve never met: Successful Telephone Selling in the ’80s, co-written by a Lehman managing director named Martin Shafiroff.
via Blaine Lourd Profile – Portfolio.com
Tags: Blaine Lourd, Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, Finance, Lehman Brothers, Michael Lewis, Wall Street
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine (May 2007 issue)
Wall Street is about to launch a new way to trade professional athletes the way you trade stocks. A piece of Tiger, anyone?
via The Jock Exchange – Portfolio.com
Tags: ASA Sports Exchange, athletes, Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, Michael Lewis, Wall Street
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