Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Chris Hill.

As we head into the dog days of August, we've got a special edition of Motley Full Money.

Our team of analysts is on vacation, so it gives us the opportunity to share some of our favorite interviews.

We've got a quartet of best-selling authors on board, including Alice Schroeder, author of the Snowball, Warren Buffett, and the Business of Life.

Matt Ridley, author of the rational optimist, makes the case for why things are getting better.

And Dave Barry talks about the business of humor.

But we begin with Michael Lewis, the best-selling business author of Liars Poker, Moneyball, and the Blindside.

His latest, The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine.

It's a book that profiles a few investors who got rich off the financial crisis.

Now, there are a few key characters that you profile and focus on in the book.

One of them, fascinating guy named Dr. Michael Burry.

This is a guy who's a medical doctor, starts out as a value investor, who ends up not only placing the right bets.

He's the guy who talked the investment banks into creating a whole new market.

How does something like that even happen?

Well, because they're ready to create it anyway.

I mean, you just put your finger on the most interesting thing about his story.

That he came from being a pretty strict value investor.

I mean, in a different age, he would have been Warren Buffett, or something like that.

But this age demanded that he change what he do.

And he figured after a while that he was the stock he was looking at,

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