Michael Lewis: "No Intelligent Person Who's Sitting On Wall Street Can Think Of Themselves As Anything But Overpaid"

Author:
Bess Levin
Updated:
Jan 14, 2019
Original:
Mar 15, 2010

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Speaking of Lewis, Janet Tavakoli had a few things to say about him and The Big Short this morning-- the book gets the crisis all wrong, and Mike is a "girlie man" and a "eunuch."

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