Money Maze Podcast

64: Michael Lewis: Bestselling Author of 'The Big Short', 'Liar's Poker' and 'Moneyball'

May 5, 2022

57:38

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The Power of Collaboration

03:48

Is There a Difference Between the Market for Baseball Players and the Market for Stocks?

01:40

Is the United States Prepared for a Pandemic?

03:21

Introduction

2min

The Money Mase Podcast - Simon's Delight to See You Again

2min

How Did New Orleans Shape You or Influence You for the Future?

3min

You've Made My Life Sheer Hell

4min

How Long Can I Last?

2min

The Story of a Mortgage Bond Trader

2min

Solomon Brothers - What Was Your First Novel?

3min

How Do You Write a Book?

2min

Premonition, a Pandemic Story

5min

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Garden Shears - A Novel About a Dead Body With Tuberculosis

3min

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Is the United States Prepared for a Pandemic?

3min

12.

The Money Made Podegass - The New Sponsor of Live Trade

4min

13.

The Undoing Projects - A Noble Prize Winning Theory of the Mind

4min

14.

The Power of Collaboration

4min

15.

Is There a Difference Between the Market for Baseball Players and the Market for Stocks?

2min

16.

Writing for the Ear

2min

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How Do You Allocate Your Capital?

2min

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Can't the Us. Ever Produce a Good President Again?

2min

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Is There a Shocking or Scandalous Topic Haven't Written on Yet?

3min

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Liars Poker - Where Would You Be?

3min

Today we have a different conversation. Michael Lewis and Simon Brewer go back to graduating from the LSE in 1985, when they were both seeking a place on the fabled Salomon Brothers training programme. Michael’s success in securing that job allowed the world to have the enduring classic, ‘Liar’s Poker’, and from there to write 16 best sellers (three of which have been made into major Hollywood films).

His new book, ‘Premonition: A Pandemic Story’, tells the enthralling tale of the US pandemic preparations that started under President Bush, but which failed when COVID-19 struck, thanks to a mixture of institutional and political failings.

Michael brings the cumulative missteps to life by narrating the story of the real people involved, their extraordinary decisions, and what went wrong.

He continues this fascinating conversation by discussing two of his other books, ‘The Undoing Project’, and ‘Moneyball’, and explains how decision making is driven by varying degrees of data and/or human interactions - from sport to finance – resulting in unpredictable consequences.

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