Charlie Rose sits down with Michael Lewis, author of Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game and hot-off-the-press The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. His new book explains how some of Wall Street’s finest minds managed to destroy $1.75 trillion of wealth in the subprime mortgage markets.

A link to the transcript of the interview follows at the end of the post.

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Click here for a transcript of the interview.

Source: Charlie Rose, March 16, 2010.

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