Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Today: #141 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 7 | #116 | #117 |
About the show
Latest episodes
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Blockers: A New Audiobook from Michael Lewis
June 4, 2026 · 2 minExciting news! I have an all new book coming out on October 6th: BLOCKERS. You can pre-order your copy of the audiobook exclusively at blockers.fm. The hardcover is available at michaellewiswrites.com. A blocker is the worst thing you…
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Live with Nicolle Wallace
December 16, 2025 · 44 minRecently, Michael Lewis spoke with Nicolle Wallace, host of the podcast The Best People, at Symphony Space in New York. They discussed what it was like re-visiting the Big Short 15 years on. And we hear the actor Zach Grenier dramatize a…
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Michael Burry Speaks
December 2, 2025 · 40 minOf all the characters in The Big Short, fund manager Michael Burry (depicted by Christian Bale in the movie version) seemed the least likely to grant Michael Lewis a follow-up interview. Burry was one of the first to see the subprime…
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How the Financial Crisis Broke Politics
November 25, 2025 · 44 minTo wrap up our series on The Big Short, Michael Lewis speaks with two people who represent two very different responses to the financial crisis of 2008: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, an expert in bankruptcy law who became an advisor to the…
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How the Financial Crisis Broke Wall Street
November 18, 2025 · 34 minTo make sense of Wall Street’s hangover from the crash described in The Big Short, Michael Lewis calls up Matt Levine. Levine is author of the Money Stuff newsletter for Bloomberg Opinion and co-host of a podcast by the same name. He’s…
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Lessons of the Great Depression
November 11, 2025 · 39 minAndrew Ross Sorkin writes the business and policy newsletter DealBook for the New York Times and is co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC. He also has a historical bent, and has a new book out about the causes and consequences of the Great…
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Lender of Last Resort
November 4, 2025 · 49 minWhen Michael Lewis wrote The Big Short, there was an extra character in the story: The Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the US, which bought up bad debt on the balance sheets of big Wall Street banks and trading firms. To better…
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The FrontPoint Boys
October 28, 2025 · 26 minThe Big Short is centered around the story of investment advisors who noticed something was seriously wrong with the subprime housing market starting in the early 2000s. Why did the traders at FrontPoint Partners and others bet against the…