Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis drew on his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers for Liar's Poker in 1989, and in The Big Short in 2010 explained mortgage bonds and credit default swaps through the few investors who bet against them. He makes finance readable by following individuals, which critics note can flatter his subjects; his book on Sam Bankman-Fried, Going Infinite, drew such criticism in 2023.