Michael Lewis

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  Price Forecasts in the Media: a Lousy Way to Invest

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  April 1, 2013

  “I often hear advisors say their clients are contrarian indicators,” Richard Peterson of MarketPsych says, warning advisors to calm clients' primal buying and selling urges.

• Running Out of Money

  By Bob Seawright  |  September 25, 2012

  It is a major fear for many Americans. In fact, there is excellent research to support the idea that Americans fear running out of money in retirement more than they fear death.

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  China Caused 2008 Crisis: Study

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2012

  Rather than “financial weapons of mass destruction,” it was a Chinese saving frenzy that created the U.S. housing bubble, Dutch researchers concluded.

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  5 High-Profile Muni Bond Busts

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 17, 2012

  Whitney was wrong, but high-profile defaults did occur, spooking markets and piquing analysts.

• Kahneman’s Close-Up

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 28, 2011

  Reading the December issue of Vanity Fair, I came across a curious find.

• ‘The Big Short’ Author Sued for Defamation

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2011

  Michael Lewis, who wrote the best-seller “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” about the mortgage meltdown, has become the target of a lawsuit by an asset manager he wrote about in the book.

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  Going Rogue: Where Six Famous Financial Crooks Are Now

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 4, 2010

  We take a look back at the rogues gallery of financial miscreants, including the king, Charles Ponzi, and ask, "Where are they now?"

• Going Rogue: Where Six Famous Financial Crooks are Now

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 4, 2010

  Can there be a funnier scene? The 2005 remake of the 1977 classic Fun with Dick and Jane finds Jim Carrey as the hapless spokesman...

• Burry, Scion Capital Founder, Bets on Gold, Farmland

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 12, 2010

  Dr. Michael Burry, who predicted the collapse in mortgages and founded Scion Capital, said in a September 7 interview with Bloomberg News that his current monies were riding on gold and arable farmland.

• Pershing Offers Free Registration to INSITE '09 (March 24, 2009)

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 24, 2009

  INSITE '09 is set to take place from June 3-5, 2009, at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Fla., featuring author Michael Lewis, journalist Bob Woodward, Yale professor Jeffrey Garten and football coach Lou Holtz.