![]() On one occasion, Steve Eisman delivered a speech at a luncheon in which he lambasted the head of a major U.S. He was unafraid of telling the truth about the underwhelming performances of the companies he was tasked with analyzing-and telling it loudly. Steve Eisman tended to buck conventional wisdom. Wall Street, he saw, was awash in flattery, in which brokers, analysts, and customers told the financial class what it wanted to hear, even when it wasn’t true. ![]() Steve Eisman rapidly developed a reputation as a brash truth-teller, unwilling to offer up the praise and platitudes that so many financial and banking leaders expected to hear. Originally an attorney, he switched gears relatively early in his career to become an analyst at Oppenheimer, a financial advisement firm. Steve Eisman made a name for himself on Wall Street. Steve Eisman is an investor best known for having shorted the housing market and profiting from the 2007-2008 financial crisis. ![]() The character of Mark Baum is based on Steve Eisman. The Big Short’s Real People Mark Baum (Steve Carell) Learn why the real people who shorted the housing market are just as compelling as the characters based on them. We’ll cover the main players in The Big Short that are based on real people. Īre the characters in the film The Big Short based on real people? Which characters? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. ![]() Shortform has the world's best summaries of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform summary of "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We had a comment from Alexander, who believes that the chances of “preventing the next big terror attack in Europe would be greatly increased if European intelligence agencies did more to share and pool resources. Transnational terrorism and criminal gangs exploit freedom of movement within the European Union to evade capture, and the good guys often struggle to keep up. Today, Europe faces an even more mobile threat. Agents of the FBI had federal jurisdiction, allowing them to investigate and pursue felons wherever they went. By the 1930s, automobiles had become widespread and criminals were more mobile than ever before.Īmerica found a solution in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Bank robbers could cross borders, but law enforcement officials could not. The United States was confronted with a problem. ![]() Their gang was infamous for a series of brazen bank robberies, zig-zagging across state lines to exploit rules that prevented police officers from following them into another jurisdiction. In the 1930s, Bonnie and Clyde seemed unstoppable. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Not my picture – this was taken from Amazon) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (5 stars) If you haven’t read it yet, I would highly recommend that you do so.Ģ. ![]() But I did enjoy this book, and this will always be one of my favorite series of all time. I feel like I didn’t get much closure because a lot of questions were left unanswered. I want all of my questions to be answered and turn the last page feeling satisfied. It left me with a ton of questions which is not how I like to feel at the end of a series. The end is what made me take off 1 star from my rating. I didn’t absolutely love it, like I loved the rest of the books in the series, but I did like it. I’m not going to go into much detail, since this is the last book in the series and I don’t want to spoil anything for those who haven’t read it yet, but I was pretty happy with this conclusion. The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (4 stars) ![]() Let’s hope I can keep that up for the rest of the year!ġ. I’ve been in a huge book slump for the majority of 2016, but it finally went away in the middle of May and I was able to read 7 books in about 12 days. This month I read a total of 8 books, which I am pretty happy with. ![]() I haven’t done a monthly wrap-up on my blog since July 2015, which is crazy! I almost always post wrap-ups on Instagram, but I’ve clearly been neglecting my blog, which needs to change! So, from now on, monthly wrap-ups will be posted here! No excuses! ![]() ![]() ![]() She is so great at handling the multiple POV's of Beatrice, Sam, Nina, and Daphne. (Is that vague enough?) I still love him and can only hope he returns in some fashion for the next book.Īny time I hear Brittany Pressley's voice, I immediately think of this series. It made me have a little bit of a boo-boo lip reminding me once again I picked the wrong love interest in a certain love triangle. She explores in more detail the driving factors behind each girl's personality and what sets up her American Royals world. Katharine rewinds the story to the night everything seems to shake up for her cast of characters. Dipping my toes into this world again through this novella was the delightful listen I had to have to get back into the swing of things. ![]() Book two was so good but that ending made me want to strangle a certain character we all love to hate. ![]() I know I'm not the only one who about lost my mind when the third book for American Royals was announced. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. “To speak a true word is to transform the world.” “Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.” “Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others the individual is spectator, not re-creator.” “Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.” ![]() “The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.” “Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” “The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.” ![]() A selection of some of the most well-known quotations from Paulo Feire's work. ![]() ![]() ![]() At a certain point, burnout hits," Telgemeier tells Popverse. "Some of my cartoonist friends tried to journal their feelings during lockdown and isolation, but I could tell it was hard to sustain that practice with no end in sight. ![]() With that in mind, we reached out to the successul cartoonist to talk about how she's doing as we go through this communal tragedy and anxiety-ridden era together. But to write and draw these stories, Telgemeier had to live through those harrowing events. Telgemeier's books have all been about finding humanity in personal experiences, and how those experiences can be relatable beyond just you and those close to you. The last few years have been a lot to deal with, even for someone like Raina Telgemeier- especially for someone like Raina Telgemeier, as we know her from her hit graphic memoirs Smile and Guts. ![]() ![]() This sweet and steamy HEA is intended for adults only. Mama and the Alien Warrior is a standalone science fiction romance. I plan to read more by this author in the future. Will their duties force them apart? Or will they finally find a family of their own? Mama and the Alien Warrior (Treasured by the Alien Book 01) Published by Chelsea, 1 month ago This is the first book by Honey Phillips that I have read and I really enjoyed her characters as well as the story. Now for the first time, this luscious human female has him longing for a mate and a family.īut Abby has to get her girls back to Earth, and Hrebec may have one last chance to save his race. Alice Komuro Allie Pearson Allysa Andrews Alma Mama Alyee B Alyson Galen Amanda. The Cires lost their females to a plague many years ago. Abducted: Alien Mate Index Book 1: (Alien Warrior BBW Science Fiction. Until his ship intercepts an illegal Vedeckian trader, Captain Hrebec is resigned to spending his life alone. ![]() ![]() She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the captain who treats both her and her daughter with unwavering devotion. Mama and the Alien Warrior is a standalone science fiction romance. ![]() When they are rescued by a massive alien and his crew, desires she has long suppressed start to surface. But she certainly never expected to find herself and her girls abducted by aliens who intend to sell them as breeders. ![]() “Can a weary warrior and an abducted mother save each other?Ībby Wentworth never regretted abandoning her corporate career to adopt her orphaned niece and run a maternity home. ![]() ![]() Instead, he’s got a gorgeous brunette asking him for help in his area of expertise. He thought this forced vacation was going to be two weeks of can’t-acesss-the-company-network torture. ![]() Jake Masterson should be thanking his lucky stars. But with two weeks until her pitch she needs help, and there’s something about Jake’s delightfully awkward charm that has her wondering if some rules are meant to be broken. As a one-woman CEO, she normally insists on doing everything herself. Even if that distraction is a very handsome stranger and fellow work-a-holic named Jake. With the biggest presentation of her life looming, she can’t afford any distractions. It’s taken Izabelle Green five years to rebuild what her ex-boyfriend stole from her. Izabelle has one rule: never mix business and pleasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to learn more about Buddhism and how its teachings might be able to improve my mental health-and that of the myriad other Americans who have flocked to some form of the religion in recent years. This was the real reason I had come to this meditation class, rather than simply meditating on my own at home with an app. The more we focused on our breath, the teacher assured us, the more these distractions would fade away.Īfter we had meditated for 15 minutes, the teacher shifted focus to the topic of the class: letting go of resentments. One guy wandered in to ask if this was an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Because we were in a major city, occasional sirens outside blasted through the quiet, and because this was a church basement, people were laughing and talking in the hallways. This was the first of two meditation sessions of the Kadampa Buddhism class I attended this week near my house, in Northern Virginia, and I did not reach nirvana. Then I realized, given that this would last for 15 minutes, I should probably find a more comfortable neck position. ![]() ![]() I had never meditated, but I’d gone to church, so I instinctively bowed my head. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much to my dismay, a crowd of 15-20 local runners met Scott at the trailhead the morning of the 11th and accompanied him up the trail to one of the AT’s most recognized views. My employer offers me a great deal of flexibility which I appreciate, but I unfortunately could not blow off my date with my customers to be a part of Scott’s run through the valley. Here was one of the greatest ultra runners ever, and he was going to be running right through the valley! Even better, he was moving at a pace that I could likely keep up with. As Scott was gobbling up the miles in Virginia, I watched in admiration as he approached my home town of Roanoke. ![]() I’m also a big fan of the AT, and being able to hike and enjoy the outdoors are two of the main reasons I maintain my fitness. ![]() I had been following his progress on his attempt to break the record for fastest supported Thru-Hike on the Appalachian Trail. I have been a fan of Scott Jurek since reading of his accomplishments in Christopher McDougall’s “Born to Run” and Scott’s own book, “Eat and Run”. ![]() But when people ask me, “What’s the best thing you’ve done to help your golf game?” My answer is usually, “When I gave it up and started doing triathlons!” You see, I am, and always have been, a runner. Don’t get me wrong, I love my customers and socializing with them is always time well spent. My morning on June 11 started with me doing what many might suggest is the “typical” salesman’s dream – playing golf with his customers in Richmond, Virginia. ![]() |