The original plan for Thursday was to get home early and attend an earlier lecture so we could stake a claim to a chair for what I was sure to be a very popular talk at 7. Well it did not work out and we got to Politics and Prose just as Michael Lewis was set to talk about his new book, The Big Short. The format was a conversation between Lewis and Washington Post staff writer Joel Achenbach. Lewis' book sounds fascinating and I look forward to buying it and reading it (the line the night of was pretty crazy as you can see from my shot of my place in the crowd). Felix Salmon, who I read daily, posted a favorable review himself which will go into more detail than I will. Essentially it is a tale from the perspectives of a couple of the people who profited from the financial crisis by identifying it early and realizing what a clusterfuck it was.
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