Pushkin.

Way back in the spring of 2008, after many years of ignoring Wall Street, I started paying

attention to it again. After all these big banks began to announce these massive trading losses, these people,

Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers and Barristerns and Merrill Lynch, who were meant to be the

smartest in the world at managing financial risk, suddenly looked like complete idiots.

And then one day, the losses grew so large that the banks began to fail and bring the

entire financial system down with them. My name is Michael Lewis. I wrote a book about this time.

I told the story through the eyes of the relative handful of people who made fortunes from the

crisis. They took the other side of the bets made by the big Wall Street banks, and those

bets paid off when the market collapsed.

I called the book The Big Short.

It came out in 2010, which is now 15 years ago.

Five years later, it became an Oscar-winning movie.

And now I've narrated the audiobook of the Big Short for the first time.

Steve is using his fingers to speak on his behalf.

Zero, they said.

Yes, asked the obviously irritated CEO.

"'Is that another question?'

"'No, said Eisman. It's a zero.'

"'Why am I bringing this story back now?'

"'Well, for one, the financial crisis of 2008

"'has entirely reshaped the world we live in. And I think there's a lot

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