{"id":8950,"date":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"this-hedge-fund-manager-tries-to-short-himself-michael-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/this-hedge-fund-manager-tries-to-short-himself-michael-lewis.html","title":{"rendered":"This Hedge Fund Manager Tries to Short Himself: Michael Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The first time I sensed the alarming change in my soul was when I caught myself, five minutes after the market open, reaching for a reefer. <\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I didn&#8217;t amass legacy wealth (underestimated by Forbes magazine in the high eight figures) by smoking weed during trading hours. Exhaling that first hit I thought and might even have moaned aloud: &#8220;Whoa, dude! Why are you even running a hedge fund?&#8221; The markets were collapsing, and so was my passion. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg subscribers have come to know me as a seriously successful hedge-fund manager who tries to serve society in more ways than one. Not only have I made as much money as possible, and proven the natural inferiority of the little rich-kid idiots from Harvard and Yale who went to work for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. I have also freely shared my thoughts and opinions with you. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&#038;sid=a5PEgwA8j68M&#038;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The first time I sensed the alarming change in my soul was when I caught myself, five minutes after the market open, reaching for a reefer. Trust me, I didn&#8217;t amass legacy wealth (underestimated by Forbes magazine in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3362,3361,402,96,1517,3364,3363,2868,1516],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-centuries","tag-dorm-room","tag-investment-firm","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings-inc","tag-london","tag-possibilities","tag-right-hand-man","tag-sailfish-capital-partners-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}