Judging Sam: Judging the FTX Bankruptcy

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

While Sam Bankman-Fried has been on trial, the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, FTX, has been going through bankruptcy proceedings. Jonathan Lipson, a professor at Temple Law School, tells Michael Lewis that he believes the proceedings have highlighted problems with the US bankruptcy system.

Jonathan Lipson’s research paper “FTX’d: Conflicting Public and Private Interests in Chapter 11” is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. You can read a draft here.

You can listen to our previous interview about the FTX bankruptcy with Jonathan’s co-author, David Skeel, here.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Hey there, friends.
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0:26.7	by me Lee C camp. For my day job I work as a theologian and a professor of ethics.
0:33.0	And in that vein, our podcast, No Small Endeavor,
0:36.3	explores what it means to live a good life.
0:39.2	We do that with the help of special guests,
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0:45.4	Pushkin's very own Malcolm Gladwell.
0:48.2	To that note, here's a glimpse into my conversation with Malcolm.
0:51.8	My mother understood that I was going to seek to rebel as a teenager.
0:56.7	So she, at one point when she saw that I wasn't that interested in going to school, she would write
1:02.4	notes. Malcolm is sick today in
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1:13.3	head over to no small endeavors podcast feed on Apple Podcast, Spotify,
1:17.8	or wherever you get your podcasts to listen to the full episode now. Hey everyone, it's Michael Lewis here and this is judging Sam.
1:31.4	For the past few months we've been covering the story of Sam Bankman Freed.
1:35.0	He's the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
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