All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers. by Michael Lewis

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

Michael Lewis

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What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character he plays and after my year of being with him I couldn't have generated the same view of him. They have a different way of looking at people, it's fascinating to watch.

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When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.

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There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

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The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.

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Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

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I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

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We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

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Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

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If we want to achieve global climate targets then the U.S. has to take a key role and Obama is doing that now with the Clean Energy initiative that he has set up.

This is all about Sunni vs. Shia, Saudi vs. Iran. by Michael Lewis

This is all about Sunni vs. Shia, Saudi vs. Iran.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

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We loved her so much and are in a kind of pain none of us has experienced, she loved Ross Schultz, with whom she died. She loved to live and our hearts are so broken they can't find the words to describe the feeling. Her mother, Tabitha Soren, and I, and her brother Walker and sister Quinn are going to find ways for her memory to live in her absence.

People look at ESG as a luxury and when recession hits it gets thrown out of the window, there's still going to be significant pressure on policymakers not to take their eye off the ball, because of the financial materiality of climate change.