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Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

By: Pushkin Industries
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Michael Lewis’s best-selling book The Big Short is now 15 years old. The Oscar-winning movie based on it came out a decade ago. To mark the occasion, Lewis has narrated a new audiobook of The Big Short. Here on his podcast, he and co-host Lidia Jean Kott are thinking about the legacy of the book, the movie, and the financial crisis of 2008. Michael catches up with the director of the movie, Adam McKay, as well as some of the real-life characters depicted by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Jeremy Strong. He also calls up journalists, economists, and historians to make sense of the 2008 financial crisis and to understand how it still affects the world today.

Pre-order The Big Short audiobook, now narrated by Michael Lewis, on Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/bigshort or wherever you get audiobooks.

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Episodes
  • Introducing Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

    Introducing Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
    Mar 22 2019

    Get ready for the launch of Michael Lewis's first podcast, where he takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (in New Jersey). What happens when fairness can't be enforced?

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    3 mins
  • Ref, You Suck!

    Ref, You Suck!
    Apr 2 2019

    Rage at referees is all the rage in professional sports. Michael Lewis visits a replay center that’s trying to do the impossible: adjudicate fairness.

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    37 mins
  • The Seven Minute Rule

    The Seven Minute Rule
    Apr 9 2019

    The government protects us from some dangerous products, but not from others that, over time, ruin countless lives.

    Michael has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help Katie finally be free of her student loan burden. If you would like to contribute, visit Katie's Go Fund Me.

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    46 mins
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