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Find out what the world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures really think, as they talk about their lives for thirty minutes on The Interview.

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The Interview Archive: Michael Lewis, Financial Journalist

08/05/2010

Michael Lewis, Financial Journalist

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Michael Lewis on the few outsiders who bet against the sub-prime mortgage business and won

Twenty years ago Michael Lewis wrote the definitive book about greed and egos on Wall Street - now he's back, commenting on the few outsiders who made a fortune in the 2008 crash.

Michael Lewis was a bond trader in New York and London in the 1980s and wrote Liar's Poker about the giant egos that ruled Wall Street.  Now he's revisited the banking world in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and has written a book about the few outsiders who saw what was to come and bet against the sub-prime mortgage business.  Michael Lewis tells Carrie Gracie that this time he's optimistic that the financial world will be reformed.

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