Author Michael Lewis

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

The cover of Boomerang: Travels in a New Third World by Michael Lewis

Rating: 3/5 Boomerang, written by Michael Lewis, continues the story from The Big Short exploring the financial collapse of Iceland, Ireland, and Greece. I stumbled upon it by accident looking through Amazon’s free Kindle reads (through Prime). I don’t have a…

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Rating: 4.5/5 In Moneyball, Michael Lewis documents the unusual success of the Oakland Athletics baseball team led by Billy Beane. With the lowest combined team salary in all of baseball, the Athletics continue to make the playoffs and beat out higher…

Flash Boys

The cover from the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

I’ve become more and more interested in investing and the stock market over the past several years. Flash Boys detailed the inner workings of high frequency trading and ways in which the odds in the stock market are stacked against…