Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100321:14:26:00
A lot of people are talking about michael lewis' new book "the big short" about a handful of people, all odd balls, independent thinkers who saw the financial collapse happen before anyone else did. and most of them made spectacular profits from their foresight. but the book is about more than that. it poses a provocative thesis that wall street in its current form may just be a dinosaur. a dying empire. michael lewis is a best-selling writer of all kinds of books. but he has a special insight into wall street. back in the 1980s he worked at salomon brothers, the firm that pioneered the kind o...