Michael Lewis’s new book about the financial crisis, “The Big Short,” goes on sale 15 March 2010.\u00a0 In the past, I have posted links on this blog to Michael Lewis articles.<\/p>\n
Two very positive reviews of this book have just come out:<\/p>\n
On 12 March 2010, Felix Salmon<\/a> of Reuters concludes, “There aren’t many reasons to be happy about the global financial crisis, but here’s one: that it brought Michael Lewis back to his roots, to produce what is probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written.”<\/p>\n On 14 March 2010, Steven Pearlstein<\/a> in the Washington Post writes, “If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis’s, ‘The Big Short.’ ”<\/p>\n On 14 March 2010, CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired “Inside the Collapse”<\/a>.<\/p>\n on 15 March 2010, Peter Lattman wrote in the WSJ’s Deal Journal, Michael Lewis\u2019s \u2018The Big Short\u2019? Read the Harvard Thesis Instead!<\/a> in which he tells about the Harvard undergrad (Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart) who wrote The Story of the CDO Meltdown<\/a>, the honors thesis which inspired Michael Lewis.<\/p>\n I have already pre-ordered the Lewis book and downloaded the Barnett-Hart thesis.<\/p>\n -RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Lewis’s new book about the financial crisis, “The Big Short,” goes on sale 15 March 2010.\u00a0 In the past, I have posted links on this blog to Michael Lewis articles. Two very positive reviews of this book have just come out: On 12 March 2010, Felix Salmon of Reuters concludes, “There aren’t many reasons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}