'Who is Government' with Michael Lewis

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Barry speaks with author and financial journalist Michael Lewis. Michael has written countless New York Times bestsellers including Flash Boys and Going Infinite. His book The Big Short was turned into an Oscar-winning film, alongside his Oscar-nominated books-turned film The Blind Side and Moneyball. On this episode, Barry and Michael breakdown the ins and outs of government and his latest book Who is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service.

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:05.8	Someone was posting photos.
0:08.1	It was just me naked.
0:09.5	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part.
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0:45.4	This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.
0:50.1	This week on the podcast, what can I say?
0:56.2	Every time I am afforded an opportunity to sit down with Michael Lewis.
0:58.0	It's just delightful.
1:00.5	He's such a fascinating character.
1:05.8	The people and ideas he writes about are absolutely fascinating.
1:13.2	His new book, he has this just absolutely insane way of seeing around a corner.
1:19.4	I asked him, how come every time you find yourself covering a subject, six months later it blows up and it's in the headlines.
1:21.7	He's done it with the big short.
1:24.7	A big short, though, was mostly after the fact.
1:26.8	But he did it with Flash Boys.
1:29.9	And he did it with Moneyball.
1:32.7	And he certainly did it with going infinite.
1:36.1	And now he's doing it again with whose government.
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