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Evidently the author conducted extensive interviews his two main sources are paul friedman and jimmy cayne transcribed the notes and then cut and pasted his notes into a roughly chronological arrangement adding sentences to connect the quotes

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It is tough to follow especially because everyone who is quoted is lying

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The author focuses excessively on personalities although he isnt quite as bad as ken auletta who explained the whole universe in terms of the pete petersonlew glucksman dichotomy

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A statistical appendix analyzing the numbers would have been very helpful because banks dont collapse because the people running them are horrible they collapse because the numbers are no good

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Thats the truth bear stearns was a piece of garbage firm

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And while this piece of garbage firm went on its merry way making not a single positive contribution to the real economy the guys at the top who didnt do much real work they played bridge and smoked dope became literal billionaires

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One you get a clear impression that the investment banking business is run by illtempered childish men almost exclusively men who are able to pay themselves absolutely incredible amounts of money for behaving very very badly