Michael J. Burry saw it coming

Read Michael Burry's piece in today's NY Times and then get Michael Lewis's new book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," to learn more about Burry and how the financial meltdown happened. If you like black humor, you'll think this is a funny book, even though it confirms our worst suspicions about how our government and our financial system operate.

See also Brian Lamb's interview with Lewis last month on C-SPAN. Lamb is unique in that he apparently reads the book before he interviews an author: