Pushkin.

The first time I sensed we all had a serious problem that might one day lead to our doom

was when I was working on Wall Street.

The problem had to do with experts.

I thought making important decisions had no idea who they should listen to or who they

shouldn't.

Even when millions of dollars were at stake.

I was a 25 year old art history major with zero training in finance.

Then I got hired to work on Wall Street where I got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars

to persuade professional money managers to do things with millions of dollars.

Obviously, I had no real idea what to do with money, yet I was taken as the expert.

Hello and welcome once again to This is Wall Street, here on WMIN Radio.

Today's special guest is Michael Lewis.

He's the author of the Money Culture and former Bond Trader for Solomon Brothers.

What's in the future for yourself?

I know you're a pretty young man, aren't you?

I just turned 31.

That young?

Well, I would say so.

He feels old.

In 1989, I wrote a book called Liars Poker.

In which I explained how I and a lot of other people on Wall Street got paid a bunch of

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