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29-438: Stefanos Manos left New Democracy (ND) in 1999 to found The Liberals , before later running on ND and Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) electoral lists in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Unlike The Liberals, Drassi was not founded as an expressly liberal party, but claims to espouse " common sense " as an ideological basis. In its first contested election, the 2009 European elections , Drassi finished ninth with 0.8% of

58-523: A Game was his first to be adapted into a film, The Blind Side (2009). In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine . The film adaptation of Moneyball was released in 2011, followed by The Big Short in 2015. Lewis's books have won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and several have reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list , including his most recent book, Going Infinite (2023). Lewis

87-608: A bond salesman for a few years. He has said that the journalism from this era found in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal inspired him to explore becoming a writer. Lewis described his experiences at Salomon and the evolution of the mortgage-backed bond in Liar's Poker (1989). In The New New Thing (1999), he investigated the then-booming Silicon Valley and the obsession with innovation. Four years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball (2003), in which he investigated

116-632: A degree in art history . After attending the London School of Economics , he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers . The experience prompted him to write his first book, Liar's Poker (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and their general manager Billy Beane . His 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of

145-563: A former Wall Street insider (as a Debevoise & Plimpton lawyer primarily for Wall Street financial firms) who later served as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, denied the book's premise, saying, "The markets are not rigged". In June 2014, White announced that the SEC would undergo a new round of regulatory review in response to concerns about dark pools and market structure. Book critics widely praised Lewis's The Undoing Project , with Glenn C. Altschuler writing in

174-457: A press conference announcing a joint electoral list for the January 2015 legislative election . On 3 September 2015, Drassi decided to again support The River in the upcoming snap September 2015 legislative election . In January 2017, Drassi decided to migrate with ND . In February 2019, Drassi was suspended. Drassi was in favor of a small and flexible government through the decrease of

203-407: A quote by Trump advisor Steve Bannon in its title: "This Guy Doesn't Know Anything". The excerpt was republished again among a review of the most popular articles of the year. In 2018, Lewis wrote and narrated The Coming Storm for Audible Studios , which released the short nonfiction story as part of its new Audible Originals series of audiobooks . In 2023, he wrote Going Infinite , about

232-572: A script for a Liar's Poker film. During 2013 in Vanity Fair , Lewis wrote on the injustice of the prosecution of ex- Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov , who is given an entire chapter in Flash Boys . Flash Boys , which looked at high-frequency trading of Wall Street and other markets, was released in March 2014. In 2016, Lewis published The Undoing Project , chronicling

261-611: Is a Greek politician , former member of the Hellenic Parliament , and a former government minister. His political career started in the New Democracy party, for which he became a Member of Parliament in 1977. During the 1980s he would be the unpopular forerunner of Greek privatization. In April 1999, he formed his own party, The Liberals , but following its unsuccessful performance in the elections held in June for

290-512: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that it "may well be his best book". His 2023 book Going Infinite , an intimate account of Sam Bankman-Fried and his firm FTX , was written while FTX was collapsing and published the day Bankman-Fried's trial on charges of fraud and money laundering began. Lewis was criticized for giving Bankman-Fried's explanations for FTX's losses excessive deference, with journalist Michael Hiltzik calling

319-588: The Dad Again column for Slate . Lewis worked for Conde Nast Portfolio , but in February 2009 left to join Vanity Fair , where he became a contributing editor. In September 2011, after the successful release of the film adaptation of Moneyball , it was reported that Lewis planned to take on "a much more active role in the what could be the next film based on one of his books" and would start writing

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348-528: The Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture . His articles described a sense of incredulity and disillusionment from career civil servants, particularly because of the Trump administration's lack of attention to some of their work, and the lack of care, knowledge, experience, and respect from Trump political appointees. That material was incorporated into Lewis's book The Fifth Risk , which

377-462: The 2009 European parliament election (0,76%). In May 2012, Drassi merged with the newly formed party Recreate Greece for the 2012 elections. Manos is a notable critic of profligate government spending and waste. He is famous for saying in 1992, while he was Greek finance minister, that "it would be cheaper for Greece to send every rail passenger to their destination by taxi", a quote which was used by Michael Lewis in his book Boomerang: Travels in

406-482: The Bankman-Fried hype a "torrent of nonsense". The New York Times wrote of Lewis's extensive access to Bankman-Fried that he had "a front-row seat—from which he could apparently see nothing." Others praised Lewis's storytelling, with The New Yorker calling the book "stupefyingly pleasurable" to read and filling "many gaps" in the story, ultimately predicting that the book "may one day be regarded as either

435-555: The European parliament (1,62%), he returned to the Hellenic Parliament firstly in 2000 as MP in co-operation with the major party of New Democracy, and again in the 2004 elections as independent by the statewide list but surprisingly on a rival PASOK ticket. After he suspended his Liberals' operation in 2002, he established in 2009 his new own party, Drassi , which he continues to lead. Heading Drassi, he took part in

464-540: The Liberal Alliance formed an electoral pact with Recreate Greece, while the Democratic Alliance, which they had also approached, refused to join them and ran on the New Democracy list instead. In the 2014 European elections , Drassi ran in electoral alliance with Recreate Greece. On 5 January 2015, Drassi's leader Skylakakis and the leader of The River party, Stavros Theodorakis , gave

493-605: The New Third World . Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American author and financial journalist . He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance . Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University , from which he graduated with

522-780: The Rules is produced by Pushkin Industries , the media company founded by journalist Malcolm Gladwell and former Slate executive Jacob Weisberg . On January 12, 2020, Lewis appeared as one of the castaways on BBC Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs . In a review of Moneyball , Dan Ackman of Forbes said that Lewis had a special talent: "He can walk into an area already mined by hundreds of writers and find gems there all along but somehow missed by his predecessors". A New York Times piece said that "no one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis", praising his ability to use his subject's stories to show

551-504: The close academic collaboration and personal relationship between Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman . The duo found systemic errors in human judgment under uncertainty, with implications for models of decision-making in fields such as economics, medicine, and sports. In 2017, Lewis wrote a series of articles for Vanity Fair in which he described the Trump administration's approach to various federal agencies, including

580-513: The cryptocurrency exchange FTX , its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried , and what came to be the collapse of FTX . Lewis's podcast, Against the Rules , first aired on April 2, 2019. The first season comprised seven episodes, each taking on a different aspect of society addressing the concept of fairness "in realms ranging from art authentication to consumer finance". The show often refers to the growing social distrust for authority, and refers to different types of public officials as "referees." Against

609-504: The end of the 20th century baseball had achieved a greater level of competitive balance than at any time in the game's history... Moneyball doesn't just get the state of present-day baseball wrong; it also misrepresents the history of the sport." Lewis's Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt ignited a new round of controversy surrounding high-frequency trading . At a House Financial Services Committee hearing in April 2014, Mary Jo White ,

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638-472: The pinnacle or the nadir of his career". Lewis has been married three times. He married his first wife, Diane de Cordova Lewis, in 1985. His second marriage was to former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner ; they got engaged three weeks after their first date. In October 1997, he married former MTV reporter Tabitha Soren . She gave birth to their three children, daughters Quinn and Dixie, followed by son Walker. In 2021, their middle child, daughter Dixie,

667-543: The portion of Greek government expenses the party considers unnecessary. Moreover, the party supported privatizations of public assets, using the proceeds for the repayment of undervalued Greek debt in secondary capital markets. Drassi had been described by the media as a "pro-business-party" supporting free-market reforms. In alliance with Liberal Alliance In alliance with Recreate Greece and Liberal Alliance In alliance with Recreate Greece Stefanos Manos Stefanos Manos ( Greek : Στέφανος Μάνος ; born 1939)

696-527: The problems with the systems around them. Critics from outside the financial industry have criticized Lewis for what they consider inaccuracies in his writing. In a 2011 column in The Atlantic , American journalist and sports author Allen Barra took issue with Lewis's characterization of Major League Baseball in Moneyball , writing, "From a historical standpoint, Lewis is, well, way off base. By

725-579: The success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics . In August 2007, he wrote an article about catastrophe bonds , "In Nature's Casino", that ran in The New York Times Magazine . Lewis has worked for The Spectator , The New York Times Magazine , as a columnist for Bloomberg , as a senior editor and campaign correspondent to The New Republic , and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . He wrote

754-725: The vote. It subsequently did not participate in the general election in October 2009 . In the May 2012 legislative election , Drassi ran in electoral alliance with the Liberal Alliance . It won 1.8% of the vote finishing twelfth overall, directly behind the Democratic Alliance and Recreate Greece , which both had similar liberal ideologies to Drassi. Ahead of new elections in June 2012 legislative election , Drassi and

783-656: Was born in New Orleans , the son of corporate attorney J. Thomas Lewis and community activist Diana Monroe Lewis. He went to Isidore Newman School . He later attended Princeton University and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in art and archaeology in 1982 after completing a 166-page senior thesis titled " Donatello and the Antique." At Princeton, Lewis was a member of the Ivy Club . He briefly worked with New York City art dealer Daniel Wildenstein . In an interview with Charlie Rose , Lewis said that his initial ambition

812-526: Was on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 14 weeks, and described the disconnect between the Obama administration's well-prepared transition plans and the incoming Trump administration's apparent lack of concern. Along with Energy and Agriculture, this book added Commerce among the main departments described. In September 2018, The Guardian published an excerpt from the book, using

841-526: Was to become an art historian, but he was quickly dissuaded once he realized that there would be no jobs available for art historians and that even the handful that existed did not pay well. Lewis subsequently enrolled at the London School of Economics and received an MA in economics in 1985. He was hired by Salomon Brothers , stayed for a while in New York for its training program, and then relocated to London , where he worked at its London office as

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