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- Michael Lewis In Conversation With Malcolm Gladwell At Live Talks Los Angeles
Video from a Live Talks Los Angeles event with Michael Lewis in conversation with Malcolm Gladwell held on April 10, 2014. The occasion was the release of Michael Lewis' book, "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt." Link to video ............... Related...
- Michael Lewis On 60 Minutes
This segment relates to Michael Lewis’ new book, which is out today, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Link to segment: Is the U.S. stock market rigged?Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work...
- Michael Lewis On Charlie Rose
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- Daniel Kahneman Comment On "the Big Short"
From the 2011 LMCM Thought Leader Forum: "Look, every success story after the fact makes sense, that's the problem. There's something I'd like to add about hindsight, just to strengthen the point. It's something that many of us are thinking...
- Michael Burry Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers (video)
Thanks to Kjetil for passing the link below along and Andrew for letting me know when it came on TV yesterday. July 20 (Bloomberg) -- "Bloomberg Risk Takers" profiles Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge....
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Michael Lewis Asks Judge to Dismiss Libel Suit
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along.
Lawyers for Michael Lewis, the author of “Liar’s Poker” and “Moneyball,” asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a bond manager who claimed Lewis’s book about subprime mortgage investing, “The Big Short,” defamed him.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels heard arguments in Manhattan today on Lewis’s motion to dismiss Wing Chau’s libel suit without trial.
“The plaintiffs are limited purpose public figures and the standard of actual malice has not been met,” Celia Barenholtz, a lawyer for Lewis, said. “There’s not an iota of evidence Michael Lewis thought anything he was writing was false.”
Chau owns Morristown, New Jersey-based Harding Advisory LLC, which manages collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, which are often backed by pools of mortgage-backed securities. Chau sued Lewis in 2011, claiming that “The Big Short” made “false and defamatory statements about him” and damaged his reputation in the financial industry.
Chau also sued Lewis’s publisher, New York-based W.W. Norton & Co., and a hedge fund manager, Steven Eisman, who was a principal source of information for Lewis’s book.
The book tells of a group of investors who made fortunes by shorting, or betting against, the residential subprime mortgage market before it collapsed in 2007. Eisman, who managed FrontPoint Partners LLC, was one of those investors.
- Michael Lewis In Conversation With Malcolm Gladwell At Live Talks Los Angeles
Video from a Live Talks Los Angeles event with Michael Lewis in conversation with Malcolm Gladwell held on April 10, 2014. The occasion was the release of Michael Lewis' book, "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt." Link to video ............... Related...
- Michael Lewis On 60 Minutes
This segment relates to Michael Lewis’ new book, which is out today, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Link to segment: Is the U.S. stock market rigged?Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work...
- Michael Lewis On Charlie Rose
Link to: Michael Lewis on Charlie Rose …………….. Related previous post: Obama’s Way – By Michael Lewis ...
- Daniel Kahneman Comment On "the Big Short"
From the 2011 LMCM Thought Leader Forum: "Look, every success story after the fact makes sense, that's the problem. There's something I'd like to add about hindsight, just to strengthen the point. It's something that many of us are thinking...
- Michael Burry Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers (video)
Thanks to Kjetil for passing the link below along and Andrew for letting me know when it came on TV yesterday. July 20 (Bloomberg) -- "Bloomberg Risk Takers" profiles Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market’s plunge....