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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
To remain in the euro zone, they were meant, in theory, to maintain budget deficits below 3 percent of GDP; in practice, all they had to do was cook the books to show that they were hitting the targets. Here, in 2001, entered Goldman Sachs, which engaged in a series of apparently legal but nonetheless repellent deals designed to hide the Greek gove
... See moreMichael Lewis • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
” Levitt’s deadpan spunkiness emerges throughout the essay. She is a proud reporter, insisting on the exterior, matter-of-fact, impersonal quality of her work, writes Gopnik. But she refused to become a journalist. “A reporter,” according to Levitt, “says what she sees; a photojournalist sees what everyone else is saying.”
Bill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
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As news organizations scrambled to correct their coverage, for instance, traders at Manifold determined that the IDF probably hadn’t been responsible for whatever had happened on that particular night at the Gaza hospital.[*19] But the bigger concern I have,
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
One of the agencies the package went to was Frederick Hill Associates in San Francisco, where Bonnie Nadell, a new associate who had worked in the subsidiary rights department at Simon & Schuster when Less Than Zero was published,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
himself into a rage. “These guys are focusing on the worst tendencies of some of the worst women out there and spreading it like a cloud of fertilizer on all women.” Ross reminded me of an old rhythm-and-blues artist who has been ripped off so much that he trusts no one. But at least there are publishing companies and copyrights in place to protect
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
The installation had been meticulously photographed as soon as it was completed in situ, but if someone from the buyer’s side noticed any anomalies they wouldn’t raise the matter with her for fear of word getting out that the work had been compromised and their investment tainted. They all patted each other’s backs and asses like that. Praise could
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