Judging Sam: Going Infinite – Jacob Weisberg interviews Michael Lewis

Judging Sam: Going Infinite – Jacob Weisberg interviews Michael Lewis

For the past year and a half, journalist Michael Lewis has been following crypto entrepreneur and former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried. The resulting book, "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon", is out October 3. When Michael started his reporting, SBF was heralded as a wunderkind, a genius, a crypto innovator, a major philanthropist and political donor. Now, Sam Bankman-Fried is standing trial on multiple charges, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and misusing billions of dollars of customer funds. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. Michael was there – with unprecedented access – to see it all happen. In this episode, Pushkin's Jacob Weisberg interviews Michael about how he chose Sam as his book subject, what he thought the book was going to be about, and when he sensed things were going to come crashing down for Sam and FTX.

This conversation was recorded on September 13.

Questions for Michael? Submit them by clicking the link in our show notes or visiting atrpodcast.com

To listen to all of our coverage ad-free, sign up for Pushkin plus on the Against The Rules show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm/plus

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avsnitt(107)

The Short Sellers

The Short Sellers

Michael Lewis speaks with Greg Lippmann, formerly a bond trader at Deutsche Bank, made famous when he was portrayed by Ryan Gosling in the movie version of The Big Short. And Lewis catches up with Ste...

21 Okt 202522min

Michael Lewis Interviews His Producer

Michael Lewis Interviews His Producer

Against the Rules producer Lidia Jean Kott is the host of a new podcast series called The Chinatown Sting. It’s about a group of unlikely suspects at the center of a massive drug bust that took place ...

18 Okt 202525min

Adam McKay is Still Angry About 2008

Adam McKay is Still Angry About 2008

When Adam McKay decided to make a movie based on The Big Short, he was mainly known for his comedies. But he managed to get a bevy of star actors — among them Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell and...

14 Okt 202536min

The Big Short is Big Back

The Big Short is Big Back

Back in 2008, Michael Lewis started paying attention to Wall Street again, as banks and investment funds started to announce massive losses. Fifteen years ago, he published The Big Short, about a grou...

7 Okt 20253min

Sen. Richard Blumenthal on the SAFE Bet Act

Sen. Richard Blumenthal on the SAFE Bet Act

Is anyone trying to regulate sports gambling on the federal level in the US? In the fall of 2024, Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill with New York Congressman Paul Ton...

11 Feb 202529min

Dr. Laurie Santos on Group Psychology, the Teen Brain, and Happiness

Dr. Laurie Santos on Group Psychology, the Teen Brain, and Happiness

Michael Lewis invites over Yale psychology professor Dr. Laurie Santos, host of The Happiness Lab at Pushkin, for a chat about what scientific research has to tell us about sports fandom, teenagers, a...

4 Feb 202529min

Natasha Schüll on the Antisocial Lure of Gambling

Natasha Schüll on the Antisocial Lure of Gambling

As an anthropologist, Natasha Schüll spent more than a decade doing field work in Vegas casinos, especially among the slot machine addicts. She tells Michael Lewis why many of those who play slots act...

28 Jan 202530min

Episode 10: “Anybody Can Win, but Everybody’s Gonna Lose”

Episode 10: “Anybody Can Win, but Everybody’s Gonna Lose”

Perhaps you have someone in your life who’s prone to sports gambling. Michael Lewis has someone. So he comes up with a scheme to “inoculate” his 17-year-old son against the lure of placing bets online...

21 Jan 202546min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

badfluence
framgangspodden
varvet
rss-jossan-nina
rss-borsens-finest
uppgang-och-fall
avanzapodden
svd-tech-brief
bathina-en-podcast
fill-or-kill
lastbilspodden
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
borsmorgon
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
tabberaset
rss-den-nya-ekonomin
dynastin
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
rss-veckans-trade