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Michael Lewis says Sam Bankman-Fried’s crime “still makes no sense.”
AFTERWORD

Michael Lewis Speaks Out After Sam Bankman-Fried Furor

Some critics alleged the “Moneyball” author had been too sympathetic to Bankman-Fried in his book about the disgraced former billionaire.

Dan Ladden-Hall

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‘MORE THAN SUFFICIENT’

Holed-Up SBF Reportedly in Talks With ‘Big Short’ Writer

The ex-billionaire’s squandering of investor funds is reportedly prime material for the author.

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

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SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK

‘Moneyball’ Author Working on Book About Fallen Crypto Wiz

Michael Lewis has been “traveling with and interviewing” Sam Bankman-Fried for the last six months and so, naturally, he’ll turn that into a book ASAP.

AJ McDougall

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‘CAN’T FIND THE WORDS’

Writer Michael Lewis ‘Heartbroken’ After Child Dies in Crash

Dixie Lewis, 19, and Ross Schultz, 20, were killed instantly when their car veered into oncoming traffic near Lake Tahoe.

Jamie Ross

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‘YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED, MIKE’

‘F--- the Law’: 4 Alarming Bits From the Next Trump Tell-All

Trump didn’t want to pay his team, Karen Pence refused the VP’s kiss, a cabana attendant arrived, and more tales of the White House transition from Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk.’

Olivia Messer

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GHOSTS

Jailed for Life in Clinton’s America

‘Little B’ was 13 years old in 1994 when he was tried as a ‘super-predator,’ thanks to federal and state laws supported by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Goldie Taylor

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Masters of the Universe

The Dirt on Wall St.’s Flash Boys

The man behind ‘Moneyball’ goes inside the crazy world of high frequency trading to find billions being made by the nanosecond.

William O’Connor

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Longreads

The Week’s Best Reads

The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By Lucas Wittmann.

Lucas Wittmann

Leadership

Obama the Stoic

Justin Green

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Michael Lewis on the Crash

Bestselling author of The Big Short, Michael Lewis answers questions on the culture of Wall Street, Obama’s economic policies, and how the characters in his book are doing.

The Daily Beast

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Michael Lewis' Favorite Books

The bestselling author of Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side, and, a new chronicle of the financial crisis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, shares his favorite books of all time.

Michael Lewis

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