Tonight's guests are Joaquín Castro on the Daily Show and Michael Lewis on the Colbert Report.
Joaquín Castro is the representative from Texas's 20th congressional district.
Castro was officially sworn into office on January 3, 2013 becoming a member of the 113th United States Congress. He was chosen as the president of the freshman class of Democrats in the 113th Congress.
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It should be a good interview.
Michael Lewis is a financial journalist and author. His books include
The New New Thing,
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game,
Panic,
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood,
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World and
Liar's Poker which is newly released for its 25
th anniverary.
A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider’s account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three books cover thirty years of endemic global corruption—perhaps the defining problem of our age—which has never been so hilariously skewered as in Liar's Poker, now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author.
It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time. After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poured in your lap.
This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have of those heady, frenzied years. In it Lewis describes his own rake’s progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.
As he has continued to do for a quarter century, Michael Lewis here shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairmen Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar’s poker for one million dollars.
It sounds quite topical, very little has changed for the better on Wall Street over the past 25 years.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
We 10/29: Ellar Coltrane
Th 10/30: Spoon
THE COLBERT REPORT
We 10/29: Jill Lepore
Th 10/30: David Miliband