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The source of his unhappiness was, as usual, other people.

I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things

The public health texts of the future will use this as a lesson on how not to handle an infectious disease pandemic.

not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

A man who can tell a good story can make a good living as a broker.

Why were they prepaying so fast? Vinny asked himself. "It made no sense to me. Then I saw that the reason the prepayments were so high is that they were involuntary.

What was threatening was cold, hard intelligence.

Vinny, always darker, said, There were more morons than crooks, but the crooks were higher up.

Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster.

I almost think the better the idea, and the more iconoclastic the investor, the more likely you will get screamed at by investors, he [Michael Burry] said.

Valerie Feigen watched in near bewilderment as her husband acquired, haltingly, in fits and starts, a trait resembling tact.

The Boston Red Sox were obsessed with outcomes; he with process. That's what kept him sane.

Trump didn't invent this desire. He was just its ultimate expression.

Trump was like . . . I love the Bangles! You know that song 'Walk Like an Egyptian'?

When we walked down the aisle, they played Taco Bell's Canyon," Quinn says knowingly. (Named for its German composer, Johann TacoBell.)

Never was a man's love of risk so beautifully amplified by his environment as Clark's was in Silicon Valley.

Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president.

Dan Satterfield, a meteorologist on CBS's Maryland affiliate, wrote. "This kind of thing should be condemned, and if you have an AccuWeather app on your smartphone, my advice is to stand up for science and replace it.

Carter invented a name for what they were doing. "Redneck epidemiology," he called it.

Not even Steve Bannon thought this was a good idea. "I was fucking nervous as shit," Bannon later told friends. "I go," Holy

A commercial banker wasn't any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead.

John Barry's The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.

even in success Markovich witnessed the dysfunction of American government.

Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish.