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Picked this up in a #littlefreelibrary and brought it with me to the cafe. I never read it ten years ago. Did you?
#whatimreading
Instead I watched the movie, from a stadium seat in a theater in downtown San Francisco, and left with a sense that worse than corruption is this sense that our global systems of governance and finance are visionless, directionless and unmoored.
In last chapter, “Everything is Correlated,” Lewis tells the story of sitting down with John Gutfreund, 80s CEO of Salomon Brothers, his old boss, who he profiled in his first book, Liar’s Poker, 20 years prior. Quoth Gutfreund: “your fucking book destroyed my career and made yours.”
The story is this: Lewis and Gutfreund are seated elbow-to-elbow at a luncheonette in Midtown Manhattan. Gutfreund offers him a deviled egg, and Lewis realizes Gutfreund has managed to pick the best thing on the menu (“this gorgeous frothy confection of an earlier age”).
“I reached over and took one. Something for nothing. It never loses its charm.”