By Jody Chudley As the financial crisis unfolded in 2008 and Wall Street collapsed, Steve Eisman loved every minute of it. Eisman was one of the main characters portrayed in the Michael Lewis book The Big Short.
The book (and the Oscar-nominated movie) focused on the handful of brilliant investors who scored windfall profits by betting against Wall Street before the housing bubble burst.
Eisman is and always has been a maverick. For decades, he considered himself an outsider because he found how most of Wall Street operated to be distasteful. He is a man obsessed with honesty and integrity in a world where people …read more
