Looking Into It A Bit, Jamie Found

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.

The Big Wall Street Firms, Seemingly So Shrewd And Self-interested, Had Somehow Become The Dumb Money. The People Who Ran Them Did Not Understand Their Own Businesses, And Their Regulators Obviously Knew Even Less.

That's What Happens When You're Thirty-seven Years Old: You Do The Things You Always Did But The Result Is Somehow Different.

Hollywood Would Much Prefer The Author Be Dead, So That They Can Buy The Book And Do What They Want To Do With It.

I Don't Think There Is A National Pasttime. Watching Tv Is A National Pasttime. Really. If There Is A National Pasttime, It Is Watching Tv.