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  Tyler Cowen and his colleague Alex Tabarrok write some interesting posts over at Marginal Revolution. Sometimes I agree with them, sometimes I disagree with them. Then there are the times when...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/12/lessons-number-go-up/

   The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouT...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/11/transcript-zeke-faux/

     This week, we speak with Zeke Faux,1 an investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for explanatory journalism and the Ame...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/11/mib-zeke-faux/

  The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Bethany McLean on Pandemic Fails, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/10/transcript-bethany-mclean-onfails/

  This week, we speak with Bethany McLean, a writer for Vanity Fair and coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room. She was previously Editor-at-large of Fortune and spent three years working at ...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/10/mib-bethany-mclean-on-pandemic-fails/

     The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spot...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/10/transcript-lewis-sbf-ftx/

   This week, we speak with Michael Lewis, whose latest book is “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. He takes readers into the mind of...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/10/mib-lewis-sbf-ftx/

  “If you want to read a moral condemnation of crypto theft, you can get that anywhere. You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.”    –Matt Levine   Michael Lewis’s new book �...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/10/cancelling-michael-lewis/

   The transcript from this week’s MiB Cass Sunstein on Decision Making, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes, Spotify, Stitc...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/08/transcript-cass-sunstein/

   The transcript from this week’s, MiB: William Cohan on GE, Lazard, Goldman & Bear, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTune...

https://ritholtz.com/2023/02/transcript-william-cohan/