This is brilliant. Please hope that everyone regardless of party is able to hear this!

@redmed10

4 жыл бұрын

Share it buddy to everyone and everywhere you know.

Michael Lewis never disappoints... always says like it is.

Michael Lewis has great sources. He's a great writer

@sa-iw4dr

4 жыл бұрын

Genius

@MsFarrob

4 жыл бұрын

He's a fun speaker too.

I don't want a 1% celebrity in charge of my government!

Totally enjoyed this presentation. Already a fan of Mr. Lewis, I just reserved Mr. Lewis's book from the library.

@willmpet

5 жыл бұрын

And I bought it, and read it, and gave it to a DJT supporter!

@themoistgreenorganic

4 жыл бұрын

William Peterson ha, and doubtful that person would read it!

Owen Jones demonstrates the depth of his 34 years. What a breath of fresh air Michael Lewis is, including his years of experience, intellect and wit.

I watched this in the end of April 2019. The dislike is 31. I suppose 31 people dislike the way Owen Jones try to cut Michael Lewis in the middle of his rants. I love Michael Lewis's rants!

33 likes for Michael Lewis; 15 dislikes for Owen Jones then?

@vaibhavgupta20

5 жыл бұрын

who is owen jones? why is he hated?

@albertneville8918

4 жыл бұрын

@@vaibhavgupta20 He is a liar and a propagandist who writes for the Guardian, an intelligence front "newspaper" that operates in the UK but actually carries the message of MI6 and the UK foreign Office. He pretends to be left wing. A pseudo blogger with a big mouth.

@corryjookit7818

4 жыл бұрын

@@albertneville8918 DRIVEL. YOU WRITE DRIVEL

@SamSung-nf6tr

3 жыл бұрын

Owens is good. Jealous.

As a student pilot who depends on and closely monitors weather forecasts I have found that accuweather sucks. THE MOST ACCURATE weather forecast is the national weather service. It is a lot harder to find the right website for the information you are looking for, but when you find it, it is awesome. There is a page of 48 hr forecasts for all types of variables such as wind speed and direction, cloud coverage percentage, ceiling, fog, precipitation, etc etc. It is broken up by hour. It is great.

Michael Lewis always discovers great stories.

If we don't know anything about The Art of War published by ancient Chineses about 2500 years ago, there is a high chance that China will lead the world by their traditional wisdom. Don't forget that we lost Vietnam War with the advanced and more powerful weapons.

The problem with Lewis' analysis as I see it - and I'm a huge fan of his books - is that if good government is only dollars of funding and willingness away, why is it that over the last few decades, as the government's portion of GDP (and extra legislation) has continuously increased the US still is doing as badly on key issues as ever? (healthcare, education, poverty, inequality, etc.). It isn't simply about money. The US government is FAR more active and controlling now, than ever, and yet.... where are the improved outcomes?

@71samrath

5 жыл бұрын

Johan Klarin Because most of the money is going to defense, and yes it’s very important! But the most important is investing money in America’s future, investing money in things from were future tech and jobs will come out.. I say start with education.

@rcp2bTube

5 жыл бұрын

@@71samrath The defense budget is only about 15% of the federal budget, lower than in many previous years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States Again, why are you arguing to spend more on education when many other countries have much greater academic results but spend much less? Money is NOT the answer, clearly!

@youmothershouldknow4905

5 жыл бұрын

Johan Klarin Healthcare costs. That was easy

@fadedflage

5 жыл бұрын

Defense, social security, and too many stupid programs. Horrible inefficiencies to buy votes. There are many areas that do belong in government responsibility.

@jackprier7727

5 жыл бұрын

Tea-partiers in govt., intent on destroying it, part of the reagan-wave of govt.-hatred and scorn of knowledge.

I really like this guys aura. If I ever remarry that is what I am looking for. A nice decent guy.

Michael Lewis is wonderful as always. Will avoid all interviews by Owen Jones from now on.

Ayn Rand herself could not get a date more handsome than Alan Greenspan.

Wow and this interview was done before Covid

Amazing interview. Don't think I've heard a better explanation of tRumps personality than 'feeds on trust'.. it's like he has a subconscious desire to always lower everything around him to his level, which is ignorance and sleaze. Also my sympathies to Michael on the loss of his daughter in a car accident. It sucks when bad things happen to good people. So many people bagging on Owen, thought he did a fine job.

Owen Jones - the Guardians star reporter.

Read “The Premonition”!

1:09:30 "Why are they so interested in Saudi Arabia?" Wow, how prescient that the royal son-in-law would end up with $2,000,000,000 of Saudi money to play around with.

it seems arrogant to call 40% of people idiots(or whatever the line was).

@jackprier7727

5 жыл бұрын

it might seem that way. Google Dunning-Kruger Syndrome.

The "mess" of both political parties contributes tremendously to the downfall of us!, and to the success of the 1%!, and the saga continues...

I'm a big fan of Michael Lewis but at 36:15 it is a pity that he isn't aware that Act 2 for Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Act 1 was inventing the World Wide Web) is "Open Data" and that the Open Data Institute in the UK is dedicated to promoting freely available data. It would have been classy to tie that in with DJ Patel.

Yes those Obama’s are smart cookies.Love those two.They are real leaders.

@Googlegirl54

2 жыл бұрын

I'll give you that alright..Very! But too bad we don't want a Socialist Country. I voted for Obama twice but Trum did a better job ..

He doesn't have to show them his tax returns.by law . I think he's doing it for spite and I don't blame him for how they treated him.. Trump was always audited..He just doesn't want to give them his tax returns. Americans love Trump.

Interviewer is no doubt an intelligent guy, but out of his league, ill-prepared and distracted. Glad Lewis diplomatically addresses the fact the kid is clutching is iphone like baby clutches a pacifier.

@finze1

5 жыл бұрын

Owen Jones is normally alright, I think he was a little flustered here.

@IsomerSoma

5 жыл бұрын

Owens tried to make the case that democrats made serious mistakes and what is lewis answer: maybe pick a star?? Idk but here owens is much better. He really doesnt gets why trump got elected. Sure there are people "too far gone" but those people always vote republican. What made trump win? His fake economic populism. I mean lewis has a very DC bubble view of the voter base.

- Lewis may be right about Obama driving 20% of the people nuts. For myself, I liked the guy, didn't think he had the experience, or skills, but did have the temperament. What I didn't like was the idea a guy who is only half black, and was entirely brought up by his white side family, and went to elite institutions, was "Black". Everyone was intent on making him as divisive as possible by playing the identity politics. I think the dems are responsible for driving that narrative, along with others who wanted to believe their own virtue for electing a black man. And in the end, the need to paint Obama in simplistic terms undermined the whole idea of change people could believe in.

Lucky Jim is one of his favourite books

This really fills in the detail of what the Trump has done. The guy needs dragging out and gut out his cronies with a civil war if necessary... is quite justified.

@Googlegirl54

2 жыл бұрын

He's isleading you .Trump has done so much for this country but the Media tries to sweep it under the rug.

What on earth is this host saying? Who can understand him? His English is so garbled and mangled that he is un-understandable. Fortunately for us, Lewis is as brilliant as always. And he can actually speak English.

Oprah would be great? Oh my.

Lewis is in unfortunate position of being interviewed by one of the young, self-important, unprepared, incompetent folks he laments in his talk. Question for Lewis is "what can I do"? I DO CARE, very much but do not feel like I have a forum, really other than to write Pelosi....

54:13 where is he going to undermine trust, next? The currency and the treasury. I think he called our next crisis.

What Michael Lewis says is true; "The Doomsday Clock" is not good! The Doomsday Clock is real people google it!

First lol

Two items which reinforce what Michael Lewis said; 1) At 43:46, Michael refers to McConnell as a 'miserable bastard'. Since giving the talk presented here, McConnell has further substantiated this description. Despite most Republican senators siding with the house on maintaining sanctions against the oligarch 'Deripaska', McConnell pressured them to lift the sanctions. Shortly thereafter, Deripaska announced he plans to 'invest' $200 million in building an aluminum plant McConnell's state (Kentucky) www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/rusal-russia-kentucky-aluminum-mill/index.html 2) Michael mentions that trump could prompt the U.S. to renege on its world debts. In fact, during a campaign interview, trump suggested as much. This should be no surprise, given that he has personally used bankruptcy SIX times as a means to pass the bad debt on to others. He even bragged that he came out well, while his creditors were the ones to absorb the losses. But if he caused the U.S. to do so, the dollar would no longer be the world's reserve currency, no country would continue to buy U.S. treasuries. The consequences would be devastating. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/us/politics/donald-trumps-idea-to-cut-national-debt-get-creditors-to-accept-less.html www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/?noredirect=on&.51a4a4f20621

@gregparrott

4 жыл бұрын

@@brent0708 The U.S. has been running an unsustainable deficit for a long time. Obama did too. However, over half of his deficit pertained to his inheritance of both the Afghan and Iraq wars plus the greatest depression since 1929 (now supplanted by Covid).

Trump understands the importance of nothing except his own self-importance.

Paralyse, intimidate, frighten, polluting any reasonable debate.... disgusting.

I’m a huge Michael Lewis fan but I was shocked to see how confused he was about why 40% of Americans voted for Trump. I recommend watching The Final Year - the documentary outlining Obama’s last year in office and the legacy hopes of his inner circle. They are so focused on international issues - Syria, human rights, climate change - they barely mention their legacy concerning America or her people. The Obama team was full of great minds tackling what are objectively the ‘bigger’ issues. A war in Syria may be a more pressing concern than an American who has lost his job. But it is Americans that vote and they were ignored and forgotten. So they voted for someone promising to put them first.

@chrishadley1755

5 жыл бұрын

Re his 'confusion': Just before 16 minutes in, he starts to set it out. Perhaps you are so resistant to the message, you don't see how profound it is. These are some of the people who keep you and your loved ones safe. They get no public attention unless they screw up (if they don't screw up they get a tick, no more) and, as he says, they could earn far more in the private sector, but they don't because they care about you. This should be a debate about what makes for good government, not about whether or not we need government at all.

@Queenie-the-genie

5 жыл бұрын

Samuel Richards This is wrong view...Obama Administration passed the Affordable Care Act against all odds, Dealt successfully with the economic crash brought on by the despicable war mongering neo-cons during the Bush Administration, strongly addressed immigration policies. The republican propaganda machine did him in along with the rabble rousing of terrified racists. The republicans are now the enemies of the people with Fox News, OAN, and all the weird crazies on info wars, Breitbart, and other far right wingers like Limbaugh. so called news - but actually propaganda outlets - touting The sleazy Trump Administration 24/7. Too much to tell here and now but the Republicans would not even give Obamas’ pick for supreme court a hearing and then rammed through their own far right picks. On and on and on. A bunch of elitist radicals doing the bidding of their donors. Tax cut fir the rich? gift to those same aggrieved libertarians. I just saw some of them on the news today trying to pretend they are moderates. Mark my words if we don’t manage to defeat these self interested lackeys we are in very dire straights.

@corkyashford3764

5 жыл бұрын

And what exactly did the GOP controlled house and senate (6 years) do about these domestic issues? The answer is exactly what they have done the past 2 years in complete control - Nothing. Lewis' presents the facts in a non-partisan way, but of course, nothing but Trumptard ideology posting comments. Zero value.

@jackprier7727

5 жыл бұрын

By "promising to put them first"i believe you are referring to what others view as "trump, the liar, lying to people who are gullible and enjoy the flavor of his lies."

Lewis ha TDS

The host of this program speaks such garbled un- understandable English that it is painful trying to listen to him. He needs a Henry Higgins. Simply awful. A wonder Lewis can converse with him.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? The garbled, mangled gibberish that comes out of the host's mouth is not only un- understandable but unpardonable for one who purports to be a journalist, one whose profession is words. To Lewis's credit he speaks intelligently and at length without trying to converse with this marginally educated person who can barely speak English.

@Googlegirl54

2 жыл бұрын

He SOUNDS Intelligent..

@mandingo9999998

Жыл бұрын

Its called an "accent". There are people in other countries that speak english with a different "accent". Some of them don't even speak English ! They speak something else ! It's true, believe it or not. LOL.

LITTLE BOY WEASEL JONES

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? For one who purports to be a journalist, this host is laughable. He is a joke. He can barely speak English and is totally un-understandable. Fortunately for viewers, Lewis IS cogent, literate, insightful, intelligent and can actually speak English.

@mandingo9999998

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Just wow.

What a rude young man.

your fathers friends are smart👍

What a tool Owen Jones is.

Wow this was horrible; a communist and a cultural Marxist!!

@dkvikingkd233

3 жыл бұрын

@Aiden English Think harder;-)

@dkvikingkd233

3 жыл бұрын

@Aiden English Come on maaaan - you can do it;-)

@dkvikingkd233

3 жыл бұрын

@Aiden English Your first brain fart was wrong, but that doesn't mean you should just give up - fight this!!

What an echo chamber this is, lol.

@ghostpos

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the world hates orange Mussolini

@themoistgreenorganic

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, competent investigative journalism. Go back to breitbart.

I thought I would persevere in order to get another point of view. But this is shallow sneering uninformative and not entertaining. It insults 50% of the US population but it does serve to demonstrate the arrogance of the pseudo elite among Democrats that helped motivate Trump voters. Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan etc etc in another class.

Lewis gone down the rabbit hole of his own narcissistic personality disorder unfortunately. Some of his work has been really good. Shame.