This is Masters in Business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, oh boy, do I have an extra special guest?

Michael Lewis, author of such books as The Big Short, Liars Poker, Blindside, Flash Boys,

Money Ball, it just goes on and on. The undoing project is here to talk about his new book,

his latest book, which is out this week called The Premonition, a pandemic story.

And man, let me tell you, I plough through this book in two days, it's just astonishing.

This is the Money Ball for epidemiology, the Big Short for how to screw up a pandemic response.

It's all of your favorite Michael Lewis characters, the brilliant, but quirky outsider,

the people who are not quite dead sensor of the institution, but are aware the institution is collapsing.

And it's just a fascinating tale. If I haven't lived through this for the past year,

I would have read this and said, this couldn't happen, this is impossible.

But having lived through it, it's like, oh my god, I remember that.

That's how that happened, holy cow. The whole thing is just astonishing.

Every time Michael Lewis releases a new book, it's an event and this one is no different.

So with that, I will just shut up and say my conversation with Michael Lewis.

This is Master's in Business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg Radio.

My extra special guest this week is Michael Lewis. He is our returning champion.

And I think this is our third or fourth interview. His latest book is Premonition, a pandemic story.

Think of it as the Money Ball version of epidemiology.

And it's absolutely fascinating. You know Michael Lewis's work, everything from Liars Poker to Money Ball to the Big Short to the Undoing Project.

This is very much along the same lines. And I think you will really enjoy it.

Let's jump right into this and I have to start Michael by asking, you wrote a series of dispaches from America in the age of COVID-19.

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