i am pleased to have michael lewis back at this table. it is worth noting how you came to know these two guys. michael: i had written "moneyball." which was about the way in my mind that markets misvalue people, in this case baseball

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michael lewis' latest book "the undoing project."s great to have you here. >> happy holidays. >> thank you. happy holidays. i really am a longtime fan of your work. i'm a future chapters into this book. which is fascinating for a whole list of reasons. why did you write this book about these two academics when i feel like you're ouvre is stories of people acting in the world. the sort of stories of applied vision. your now sort of talking about the theoretical foundation. >> so had they just been academics, i wouldn't have written the book. but they were mixing it up with the israeli army constantly, on and off the battlefield constantly, they were like a lot of israeli academics at that time they felt the pressure to be useful and practical. so danny essentially did moneyball for the israeli army. he designed the algorithm to choose who would be an officer and who would be a regular soldier and dramatically improved the army. so they were in the world. but in addition to that, the ideas that had such practical consequence. you trace

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michael lewis' newest book is "the undoing project."oing our perceptions about the decision-making process. tom keene asked michael lewis about behavioral economics. >> one of the things that was really interesting to me in doing the book was the effort people had made to keep him alive, that he made such an impression on people's minds that they do not want to lose him because there are so many people who knew him that when they face a problem, they ask themselves, what would amos say? it is their way of looking at the world. presence, heicals is a relic. the stuff you left behind in the world. tom: it is essentially lennon and mccartney. they were that an extra quickly linked. you have the tragedy of his death. whatever they do separately. it is a marriage, as i know, where there is all this pressure on the outside world because it is an uneven status in the marriage, and, yeah no. the relationship was for me the way in. -- there weres two such powerful minds. tom: you wrote for decades about finance, and the latest book on the freque

michael lewis, what we can predict is another important book, "the undoing project." cannot say enough about accessibility in "the undoing project." i will have to add that to my julie: hanukkah list -- julie: i will have to add that to the hanukkah list. let's check in with elisa parente. elisa: if we had recorded a six point eight earthquake a hundred miles off the northern california coast. we are monitoring the situation and will bring you more information as a learned. syrian troops are pushing deeper into rebel parts of aleppo. they say civilians who want to leave should be given safe passage and then asked for a five day cease-fire to evacuate the wounded. syrian government officials say troops will not back off the assault. human rights watch is calling for an arms embargo on saudi arabia over the war in yemen. the group says the u.s. might be complicit in the atrocities there. more than 160 civilians were killed in one month, mostly by u.s. bombs sold to the saudi led coalition. the defense is seeking a mistrial in the charleston church shooting death penalty

jane: michael lewis, thank you for joining us. michael: thanks for having me. jane: as 2016 draws to a close, the u.s. presidential election will undoubtedly go down as one of the most memorable events of the year. a new photo exhibit in new york explores how the candidates have shaped images over the years. we went to have a look. >> we are at the international center for photography at the exhibition, "winning the white house," that takes a look at the last five to six decades of u.s. presidential campaign photography and traces the relationship between how candidates shaped their personas and development in the media. the idea is the visual image in the media is how presidential candidates portray their personas to the public as members of the public typically don't interact with the candidate. the way that members of the public understand the candidate is through the media, television and photography and newspapers and periodicals and up through the present through the internet and social media. each candidate conveys through photography what they want vote

i am pleased to have michael lewis back at this table.t is worth noting how you came to know these two guys. i had written "moneyball." which was about the way in my might that markets miss value people including baseball players. there were cheap ones and expensive ones. my interest was on account of that. why is baseball players can be misjudged, who cannot be. i never asked a question of why it happened. in a review after the book came in the new republic, they said basically -- michael lewis has written a good story but he does not seem to understand there is a good source for all of this stuff. there are two israeli psychologists that did work on the biases, the cognitive biases of the mind. including when clinical candidates are being misjudged. charlie: and most important how the mind works. michael: these two guys are named daniel kahneman and amos tversky. i read some of that stuff. i was embarrassed i did not know them. won theahneman had just nobel prize for economics. i was having drinks with a psychology professor friend of m

michael lewis is with us. welcome. >> thanks for considering me day. i have a habit of stealing talk show mugs. >> so we're inspiring. >> tell me where you found the idea? >> i had written this book about the team that thrived because baseball players were misjudged by their markets. there's a book about how people get misjudged by markets and how their value is hard to perceive. judgment was coming from people, trust me, gut ex-baseball experts. in the same old statistics. i never really got to the question why do people misjudge other people. and in a review of "money ball," two scholars, wrote mr. lewis doesn't seem to understand that these two psychologists who did a study into the way the humid mind functions making judgments. >> what's great about this, it's a story of friendship. >> it's more than just friendship. it's love. >> they're heterosexual men. but you said they connected with each other more deeply than anyone else even their wives noticed. they finished each other's sentences. there was a deep love. >> danny said to me once, he was de

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. >> michael lewis, brian sullivan. your new book is called the undoing project, which maybe is a very appropriate title right now because it does appear that the president-elect is undoing in certain ways the norm, the way things get done, the way you communicate. what do you make of what you've seen in the last two weeks? >> you know, it has been very tempting to filter the whole trump phenomenon. what they studied is the flaws and intuitive judgment. the appeal to his supporters is appeal to pure intuitive judgment. so the -- so it has been interesting. what do i make of it? well, one of the great lessons is the world is a far more uncertain place than people like to think and they do things to make it seem more certain for themselves than it is. and they shouldn't do this. at least mistakes. i suspect he's the master of this. but it is very -- the -- the doing project title refers to what they were working on when they broke up. it was how people undo tragedies, they were trying to -- trying to describe how the huma

you know that michael lewis put forward -- no, wait, this is in the washington post and new york times he put forward that hillary clinton was involved in a child sex ring. there is a reason why some mentally ill north carolina man came to d.c. and tried to shoot the pizza place. >> and perhaps the number one reason is that he was mentally ill. mark and ethan, thank you guys. appreciate it. whenever you have radio talk show hosts on, they always make it interesting. and keep it right here for more interesting conversation after our show. fox news sunday, chris wallace has an interview with incoming chief of staff reince priebus at 2:00 eastern. shannon. >>> winter storms are wreaking havoc across the country causing hundreds of accidents on icy roads. in baltimore, at least two people are dead, dozens are injured after a tanker yearing gasoline skidded off the road and exploded alongside a nearly 70-car pile-up. now authorities don't yet know whether the pile-up was a result of the explosion or caused it. >>> in indianapolis, about 50 people were forced to evacuate a restaurant when th

. >> author michael lewis on his new book about how we make decisions and how often we make the wrong one. when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. in 44 days donald trump will become the president of the united states, and yet today his views on some of the most important issues he'll face in the white house are still a moving target. but on climate change, arguably the gravest, most urgent problem of our time, there were glimmers of hope earlier this week. former vice president al gore, probably the world's most prominent climate activist, visited trump tower on monday to meet with the president-elect and his daughter ivanka. and when i talked with him later he was surprisingly optimistic. >> it was a very intelligent exchan

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best-selling author michael lewis is back with us.k daily news, mike lupica. >> very spunky. guys versus head, let's keep talking. >> the story i tell is about these two israeli psychologists who examine how the gut leads you wrong. it isn't that the gut is always wrong. it's that there's systematic errors it makes. they exposed it over a period of ten years. it's the story behind moneyball, the story that inatienables the oakland a's to build on players nobody wants. >> michael, this is exactly the war that is still going on, except that the guys who don't believe in analytics are losing the war in baseball. where the old-school managers have finally just had to give in to analytics because they've got all these young general managers and all these guys sitting with their ipads telling them why this second baseman is better than another second baseman. >> it's not just baseball. baseball is a purest case, i think. you can see it so cleanly. because the data is so clean, because people win and people lose. >> and the numbers. there's

>> stephen welcomes jason bateman, padma lakshmi and michael lewis, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape in the ed sullivan theater in new york ( cheers and applause ) ? >> stephen: hey! watch out, baby! ( cheers and applause ) whoa! # how are ya! hey! welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. i'm so excited to be here tonight with you guys. it's an amazing crowd tonight. ( cheers and applause ) even better than the crowd last night, i hosted the kennedy center honors last night, it's going to broadcast december 28th, right? something like that. check your local listings, but there. you know, because you're there with all these art ition -- artists. they have the rainbow ribbons, the kennedy center, the first lady is there. you're backstage with the legends because it's legends honoring legends. last night i got to meteringo star! -- meet ringo starr! ( cheers and applause ) that's exactly what i said when i saw him! everybody he sees whether an individual or a crowd? he says this -- ( laughter ) >> jon: two deuce! >> stephen: he does this to everybody. and

charlie: michael lewis is here. than 9ks have sold more million copies.dapted into successful feature films. his new book is called "the undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds". it tells the story of two israeli psychologists, daniel kahneman and amos tversky. new york times says the book combines intellectual rigor with complex --. he has written one hell of a

much more coming up on radio and television, my conversation with michael lewis.oomberg. ♪ >> welcome to "bloomberg daybreak," i'm alix steel, alongside david weston. we are less than one hour away from that all-important ecb rate decision. the dax is over 11,000. european stocks looking at the longest rally in two months. it will be a story of euro-dollar at a three-week high . heavy into that ecb decision. the board, thess italian 10 year yield is backing up by six basis points. david? david: here's what you need to know this hour. draghi's decision. everyone is counting on an extension of the quantitative the italianam as lender, monte dei paschi, is said to be asking for more time. we are expecting the news conference at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. china, lift. chinese imports surging on strong demand for

. >> if he thinks michael lewis brown is the same person as michael james brown, he is confused.he american people should not be duped into believing him for a minute will stop it is the opposite of what he is saying. not people were voting fraudulently and illegally, but were actually legitimate voters who had their right to vote taken away from them by kris kobach and donald trump and there is no legitimacy to his claim that there are fraudulent voters that have distorted the outcome of this election. and it jim crow system all needs to be fixed. it is not rocket science. this is plane basic democracy. i think the people of detroit are so inspired and principal and passionate, they are a model for this struggle around the nation. >> the recount slogs through, uncovering missing votes and missing voters that could change through the presidency. republicans rushed in to shut down the recount completely. wisconsin, pennsylvania, here in michigan. we may be way north of the north and it's in line, but the elections are still run by jim crow. for democracy now!, this is greg palast.

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. >> michael lewis, your mastery of craft is incredible and enraging at the same time. it's great to have you here. >> i don't have a tv show, so i have time to figure it out. >> the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> you're very cute when you're jealous. >> how can i not be? >> in april 2009, a couple months after president barack obama was sworn in for the first time, one youngish proudly eccentric silicon valley billionaire declared sort of a public manifesto. didn't make that much of a splash outside silicon valley because he's kind of a known eccentric so therefore whatever he's on about now sort of tends to be seen as an interesting thing if you care about him, but if you don't it doesn't necessarily mean it will have any wider impact on the world. still, though, what this silicon valley billionaire had to say right after barack obama was sworn in in 2009, it was controversial enough that people do expect weird stuff from him, looking back on it now, even now it stands out. what he proclaimed in 2009 in this manifesto was that democracy was over. freedom was

david: that is michael lewis, the author of "the undoing project."f capital into canada's budding marijuana industry has sent stock versus oaring, but could the ball soon burst? this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets. i'm david gura. sears stock is rising today but is leaving investors scratching their heads as to why. they posted a $748 million third-quarter loss, comparable sales dropped again and will close even more stores. let's see what the numbers show today. that the quarterly loss brings the damage to $9.35 billion in the past eight years. sears needs to raise $1.5 billion to make it through 2017 comfortably, according to one analyst. the billionaire behind sears, eddie lambert, has spent years propping up sears by selling off its household brands and real estate. you can see the decline in store count. today's result of pressure on him to find even more assets to sell to generate cash. the losses are the result of slumping comparable sales. ofrs posted only one quarter positive sales growth since 2000, that green blip. last q

in his new book, michael lewis explores the science. we have michael with us now.s a fascinating time to have this discussion. i'm not sure you timed t book more perfectly. >> i did not have the trump administration in mind. >> you didn't. >> you can filter the trump administration through it. >> you found in the early 1970s when the psychologists found troubling to think that crucial decisions are made today as thousands of years ago in terms offends guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority. why frightening? because they were consequential decisions? >> these are the two israeli psychologists who did the initial work on human judgment and decision making. and if there is a central lesson to the work it is fallibility of the human mind when operating with intuition. if you have someone in charge with a finger on the button with pure intuition and does not acknowledge infallibility it is scary. >> let's talk about data versus instinct. i have talked to people that ran the naval air fare in the united states saying i need a lot less engineers an

. >> here's a look at the books that are being published this week, in the undoing project, michael lewis p analyzing if two psychologist who is's work of conventional thinking on how we make decisions decisions and usn behavioral economic pps cnn writer thomas lake has the first book by network politic edition unpress detected which chronicles the 2016 presidential election and collection of essays range from femme theism and neuroscience to psychological and art to a woman with looking at women looking at women in the. in the glass universe recalls the women who acted as human computers at the harvard college observatory in the mid-19th century and their impact on astronomical discoveries. yale professor fall use empathy runs counter to our better judgment. based on irrational emotion in against empathy. and in the man with the poison gun, historian explains how the trial of kgb assassin changed soviet international operations. look for these titles in book stores this coming week and watch for many authors in booktv on c-span2. [inaudible] i'm going to attack off my jacket. okay. we mi

in the undoing project, michael lewis analyzes the findings of two israeli psychologists whose work showshumans are predisposed to irrationality. historian ben mcintyre or explores the impact of britain's special air service in world war ii in "rogue heroes." cnn's fareed zakaria reports on a liberal arts education and why it's necessary. his book is "in defense of a liberal education." 9 and ta'nehisi coates gives his current thoughts on the state of black america in between the world and me. more picks include dreamland, olivia lang recalls the solitary lives of prominent artists in "the lonely city," and historian timothy garden ash explains how the first amendment affects the 21st century in "free speech." that's some of the staff picks from powell's bookstore in portland, oregon. many of these authors will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> okay, good evening. i'm bradley graham, co-owner of politics & prose along with my life, lissa muscatine. and on behalf of everybody at p and p and the staff here at sixth and i, we

tom:tom: michael lewis has this wonderful book out, on the behavior. -- what do youk observe in theiractions given the history of the bank of japan? >> i believe there was a huge change several years ago when the current governor took his role. he announced they were going to aim at 2% inflation expectations. he has expanded the balancing more than any other central bank and that has been a big statement in recent years. this year they announced that they are going to reduce negative interest rates early in the year and just in september they are announcing that they are going to cap the 10 year bond yield at zero. no central bank has done that since the u.s. fed in the 1930's and 40's. tom: this is amazing. this is the chart that kim was just talking about. this is truly extraordinary. here is the acb and the u.s. down here. their balance sheet is a percent of gdp. this mode shot is on the frontier, the boj is a total outlier. we need to ask, where does this end? they are nationalizing the private market. they are working their way through the bond market and the equity market. where

the answer is in things like michael lewis is new book, or jonathan heit at nyu, something we all understand i think, which is that intuitively our intuition and our emotions are much stronger than our reason. that presents tremendous problems for an institution that sounded unreason. the fact is we are on teams. what we constantly look for is good news about our team and bad news about the other team. i think this election provided opportunities thanks to the revelation that the internet caused for us to find whichever team we are on, that whatever proof, in quotation marks, we decide that we want to discover. i think that's really what happened. i'll give just one little example. the trump team has been saying that donald trump has won a landslide victory. i'll bet if you did a survey of his supporters they would say he sure did. the fact that he got few electoral votes as a winter than two-thirds of the recent presidential winner, lee since 1900 including both terms of barack obama, both terms of bill clinton and so forth, doesn't really matter. because it is this emotional connection acc

in addition, we will also be theing from michael lewis, author.ing with our tom keene, an interesting conversation. and coming up at 11:00, doug on the a longtime bear market has come over to the bullish side recently. we will see what he makes on the market action since the election and whether he thinks this run will continue. so we have a packed show here. forward to that, julie hyman. coming up, taking a look at glencore. that stock up over 2%. does this acquisition with the stake violate any western sanctions against russia? we debate that hot topic next. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: putin, the dealmaker. russia sells a stake in the largest oil producer to glencore. vladimir putin went on national tv to tout the deal as one of the largest acquisitions in the oil and gas sector in the world in 2016. earlier in the program, we spoke with a u.s. department of state bureau of energy resources special envoy and got his thoughts on the deal on whether violated sanctions. >> it is a scented entity and we have to look at how they will provide the finan

the british music & film producer martin lewis first met george michael in 1984 — when, he told me, hece a documentary about wham's historic visit to china. it was a bizarre juxtaposition. the chinese government at that time wa nted chinese government at that time wanted to send a message that they we re wanted to send a message that they were liberalising and open to western culture but they did not prepare people that well for it and even the sight of western folks wandering around, particularly jest in colourful attire, was unusual for the chinese and, frankly, was interesting for george to encounter a different culture. he originally went along to going to china because his manager wanted it as a publicity stu nt for his manager wanted it as a publicity stunt for the band to breakthrough in america but it took a life of its on. he to china at a time when people were a bit traumatised, they had just come out of the cultural revolution and did not really dead to be individual and he can't visit to be individual and he can't visit to individuals who are very distinctive and colourful?

and the answer is in things like michael lewis his new book, or jonathan heit at nyu nyu, sometg we all understand i think, which is intuitively, our intuition and our emotions are much stronger than our reason. that presents tremendous problems for an institution that is founded on reason. the fact is we are on teams. what we constantly look for is good news about our team and bad news about the other team. i think this election provided opportunities, thanks to the revolution that the internet caused, for us to find, whichever team we are on, whatever proof, in quotation marks, we decide that we want to discover. i think that's really what happened. i'll give you just one little example. the trump team has been saying that donald trump has won a landslide victory. and i'll bet if you did a survey of his supporters they would say he sure did. the fact that he got few electoral votes as a winner than two-thirds of the recent presidential winners, at least since 1900 1900, including boths of barack obama, both terms of bill clinton and so forth, doesn't really matter because it is this e

michael sommerville. bald and beautiful. two for two. comedian lewis jay gomez. his friends call him ant because he ruins picnics. sitdi sitting next to me is anthony cumea. let's start the show. ♪ a group of antitrump millennials are opening a permanent protest space near the white house to insure that the president elect quote doesn't succeed. the house has been dubbed district 13 in reference to the defiant community in the hunger games and organizers say it will be ready by inauguration day, a space for the best kind of trouble makers from around the country. many have tried to stop trump and failed. you may recall before the electoral college voted, they tried to persuade them to vote for anyone but trump. they sent letters, lots and lots of letters. let's see what one elector from ohio did with all the mail. >> got a lot of letters to burn. going to be burning letters all night. >> anything else to add, sir? >> no more letters today. we've got our electoral votes and a new president. weevl a we've got our trump sign and our cows ovhere. they're supporting t

martin lewis, a pleasure to talk to you, thank you for sharing your memories and experiences of george michaelory this hour. george michael, who has died at the age of 53. madonna and sir eltonjohn have led tributes to the singer. russia is beginning a day of mourning for the 92 passengers and crew who died when a military plane taking them to syria here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. good at this morning's weather. morning. it is a bit mixs morning. good morning. it is a bit mixed this morning. if you have had a bit too much christmas pudding, it is a lovely day for a walk. crisp and clear skies across much of southern england and wales. further north, a different story. this is five a short while ago, snow falling. it is not just snow across scotland. this storm corner, it is buffeting gawky and cheque—books. —— buffeting gawky and cheque—books. —— buffeting gawky and ship schedule. pretty wild and they across scotland. frequent heavy sleet and snow. these showers and northern ireland and northern england. notice, further south there are blue skies for many. certainly across s

martin lewis is a british music & film producer based in los angeles. he first met george michaelsked to produce the documentary film of wham's historic visit to china the next year i understand you got that commissioned to produce the documentary pretty much the night you met him? i did indeed. the wham arrived in 1983, in new york, afterwards i went to dinner with george after the concert. george was chatting about things, and i said what are you doing next? george said we have a plan to go to china. i immediately said, that sounds like a great film, that is a documentary. we got chatting and the next thing i knew he said you should make the film. that was it, he went on his impulse, he had an instinct that it would work. lo and behold, in april of the following year, 1985, i was off to china with george to make that phone. martin, we arejust showing our viewers some of that film, foreign skies, wham in china. people are looking very bemused as the singer tore a market and go on walkabout. it was a bizarre juxtaposition, the chinese government at that time wanted to send out a m

michael. two greats. it starts here on abc7 at 10:00 p.m. >> a teen finds himself in the spotlight after learning cpr in junior >> lewis learned the process from a program aimed to teach cpr to every 7th grader in sonoma county. >> thank goodness they got to my boy. >> i do think it's brought us closer. >> hundreds are scrambling to put finishing touches on 44 floats to be featured. the traditional event takes place on monday. aids health care foundation dedicated the float to the 49 people killed in orlando's pulse nightclub. the city of los angeles is celebrating the bid for the 2024 olympic and para-olympic games. you can watch the rose parade here on abc7. >> new at 6:00 a look at new technology that can save the lives of >> developed by a research team at nasa's pet propulsion team, it's technology may solve a problem for firefighters. how to track them inside of steal six firefighters dispatched were unable to find an exit before running out of oxygen. >> most are signal dependent. and in a concrete building they don't work. >> he says having a device like this one would be an important tool for firefighters. right now, if a fellow

michael. two greats. it starts here on abc7 at 10:00 p.m. >> a teen finds himself in the spotlight after learning cpr in junior high. >> lewis learned the process from a program aimed to teach cpr to every 7th grader in sonoma county. >> thank goodness they got to my boy. >> i do think it's brought us closer. >> hundreds are scrambling to put finishing touches on 44 floats to be featured. the traditional event takes place on monday. aids health care foundation dedicated the float to the 49 people killed in orlando's pulse nightclub. the city of los angeles is celebrating the bid for the 2024 olympic and para-olympic games. you can watch the rose parade here on abc7. >> new at 6:00 a look at new technology that can save the lives of firefighters. >> developed by a research team at nasa's pet propulsion team, it's technology may solve a problem for firefighters. how to track them inside of steal six firefighters dispatched were unable to find an exit before running out of oxygen. >> most are signal dependent. and in a concrete building they don't work. >> he says having a device like this one would be an important tool for firefighters. right now