Acid yet entertaining, Michael Lewis is a skilled chronicler of our times. He was a top bond salesman at Salomon Brothers before he left to become a writer, and Liar’s Poker, his semiautobiographical account of life on Wall Street in the 1980s, is considered one of the defining books of that time. He has gone on to tackle topics from Silicon Valley (The New New Thing and Next) to the electoral process (Trail Fever) to sports (Moneyball). His book about football, The Blind Side, was recently adapted into a movie starring Sandra Bullock. Now, he returns to his financial roots with The Big Short, a look at the 2008 crash of the United States economy.

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture

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