The Big Short
19th Apr 2010; 18:00
This event has been cancelled.Due to the disruption caused to international flights by volcanic ash, the speaker Michael Lewis has been unable to travel to the UK.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
The RSA Events Team
RSA Keynote
It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller Liar's Poker exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s.
He wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts.
Join Michael Lewis at the RSA for a visceral tour to the heart of the financial system, travelling around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the current crisis.
Michael Lewis has met the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all off the cliff. How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Where did it all start? Was it systemic? Was it avoidable? And who's to blame?
Michael Lewis, author of the international best-seller Liar's Poker and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, will be in conversation with John Lanchester, author of Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
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