2014 - Michael Lewis

Journalist and author Michael Lewis has written about everything from sports to politics, but is most recognized as one of the nation’s premier chroniclers of Wall Street and the major changes that it has experienced in recent decades. Lewis began his writing career with Liar’s Poker, a New York Times best selling novel that provided his first-hand account of a transformation of how Wall Street conducted business, moving from Shoot-from-the-Hip and instinct driven traders to mathematically driven financial engineers. More recently, Lewis focused on the financial crisis with his books The Big Short and Boomerang. This year, he made waves from Main Street to Wall Street with the story behind the phenomenon of high frequency trading and the efforts to overcome the riggings of the market by some players in his best seller, Flash Boys.

Lewis shared his insights from nearly 30 years of following the inner workings of Wall Street and the global financial markets as the featured guest of MPMG’s Speaker Series event.