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  • Better article about the book:

    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/04/michael-lewis-repeat-omission-crimes-committed.html

    tl;dr The book is a bit bollocks, not very accurate, and wheels out tropes that the author is well known for

    "But their are even more serious lapses.". Proofreading being one of them I suppose.

    It's a fairly typical 'long' American magazine article - primarily aimed, it would seem, at the heads of major film studios looking for a new Matt Damon project. Brainiac outsiders in the role of David, Wall street the perfect Goliath. A few bits of dialogue that are too well remembered to be true. And most of all, as that review points out, 'It is part of the Lewis shtick not to challenge the social order', so the big corporations that own Hollywood can have their cake and eat it too.

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