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Which market is rigged against retail investors?
Michael Lewis ranks as one of the most trenchant observers of Wall Street today, as his books Liar's Poker and The Big Short amply evidence. So, it is with great interest we learned was been duped into buying some toxic assets that had been recommended by a large brokerage firm.
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Michael Burry, of The Big Short fame, on the next big thing
Michael Burry rocketed to fame when he was discovered by Michael Lewis, who turned his escapades into The Big Short , an insightful look at the market mania that coalesced around the residential housing market. So what is the colorful Burry doing now? He no longer runs Scion Capital, but manage
Michael Lewis slams Goldman Sachs
Michael Lewis, of Liar's Poker and The Big Short fame , has some dismaying words for Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) in an interview with Vanity Fair .
"The world would be better off without Goldman Sachs, and I don't think it is just Goldman Sachs the world would better off wit
Michael Lewis: The absurdity of Wall Street, the end of Goldman Sachs
Michael Lewis has long been an astute observer of Wall Street. He got a glimpse from the inside of Salomon Brothers, which yielded his classic Liar's Poker . He delivered another winning read with The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , all about one money manager and the latest-mortgag
Financial crisis, the movie version
Tom Hanks as Madoff ( Bernard Madoff news) whistleblower Harry Markopolos ( Harry Markopolos news)? It could happen.
Markopolos, who just published his book "No One Would Listen" about the Madoff saga and his efforts to get regulators to prosecute the man, has been approached with offers
Wow! A riveting look at an unorthodox fund manager
When we think about the hedge fund ( hedge fund news) managers who made a killing betting against mortgage-related bonds we think of the likes of John Paulson. But the guy who was onto all of this before any of the others was Michael Burry, the most successful bond investor you never heard of.
Fund manager was right about Madoff
Michael Lewis, of Liar's Poker fame, and David Einhorn, Lehman-slayer, offer an interesting critique of what ails Wall Street in the op-ed pages of the New York Times . One of the more interesting bits of information concerns Harry Markopolos, formerly of Rampart Investment Management, who
