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Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for his time. At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there. Then it all fell apart.

Tornadoes, cyclones, tsunamis… Weather can be deadly – especially when it strikes without warning. Millions of Americans could soon find themselves at the mercy of violent weather if the public data behind lifesaving storm alerts gets privatized for personal gain. In his first Audible Original feature, New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis delivers hard-hitting research on not-so-random weather data – and how Washington plans to release it.

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing. People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events.

From Michael Lewis and Against The Rules comes a special series – Judging Sam: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Judging Sam will follow the daily courtroom drama as the former FTX CEO is tried for financial crimes, with expert commentary from author and Against the Rules host Michael Lewis, reporter and Against the Rules producer Lidia Jean Kott, finance journalist and What’s Your Problem host Jacob Goldstein, as well as legal experts and journalists who cover cryptocurrency and the law. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Investigating how science and philosophy interface on controversial issues, Michael unpacks the research and ideologies driving public discourse and policy. Be sure to download each episode's "artifact” for more information and to share with others.

The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis, is a journalistic account of how broad swaths of the US government are being ignored or dismantled under Donald Trump’s administration. After shunning the conventions of a presidential transition, Trump and his tiny team assumed stewardship of the government without ever bothering to learn how it works. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)  

Get the main key insights from this summary of Michael Lewis’ The Premonition in just a short listen.

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Sean Michael Lewis, Entrepreneur and Founder of Tier Level Digital Marketing, focuses on discussing how businesses in niche markets and verticals can dominate and improve success.

Michael and Claire are a husband-and-wife team who not only share the same last name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. Through sharing testimony and their experiences, Michael and Claire would like to impart team building exercises to practice in your marriage. They believe the Biblical model for marriage includes being more than partners, friends, and lovers.Marriage is not the destination, it is a daily lifestyle to share with each other. Marriage is more than an agreement, ceremony, or contract. In the More Than Married podcast, Michael & Claire Lewis ...

Two friends hash out topics covering investing, technology, lifestyles, hobbies, and more

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis' famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance, and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery.

C. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia tales and Christian apologetics, works that have sold more than 100 million copies. But Lewis was also a trained philosopher and a professor at Cambridge and Oxford. An intellectual giant, he fiercely and extensively critiqued the fashionable dogma known as scientism - the idea that science is the only path to knowledge, and matter the fundamental reality.

Um retrato sombrio do período de transição e dos primeiros meses do governo Trump.

Black Americans' resilience during centuries of racially motivated violence is beyond remarkable. But continuing to endure this harm allows for generations of trauma to fester and grow. Healing has to be the priority going forward. For decades, Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts clung to her upbringing in the church, believing that racial reconciliation would come through faith and discipline, being respectable, and doing what's right. But when her cousin became the victim of a white supremacist's hateful rampage, her body and soul said, "no more." 

Creating a safe space to share our pain and experiences to fight the stigma of male empathy. Taking a ride through the eyes of a group of friends from Chattanooga, TN.

Para quem conseguia ler as entrelinhas, as notícias censuradas da China pareciam aterrorizantes. Mas Donald Trump insistiu que não havia nada com que se preocupar. Felizmente, ainda podemos contar com os céticos, os que estudam pandemias e os que estão dispostos a examinar com firmeza os piores cenários. Este thriller de não ficção, brilhante e tenso, escrito por Michael Lewis contrapõe médicos visionários à resposta oficial negacionista do governo Trump à eclosão da Covid-19.

Welcome to The FOUR: A fearsome faith foursome talkin’ about Black Life, Love, Power & Joy. YOUR HOSTS: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Lisa Sharon Harper, Rev. Michael Ray Mathews, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis Four of America’s most gifted, prophetic Black leaders are also four of the funniest, most irreverent, soulful and justice-rooted friends around. For the first time, they’ll join their public voices in a special podcast series as freewheeling as the barbershop and beauty salon, and as dynamic and deep as the books, films, television, speeches and sermons they’ve created, and protests they’ve...

Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators capture the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in all its ragged glory. They give listeners an on-the-scene feel for the movement as it unfolds while exploring the heady growth of the protests, considering the lasting changes wrought, and recommending reform.