We Change For The Good So Long

The Model Used By Wall Street To Price Trillions Of Dollar's Worth Of Derivatives Thought Of The Financial World As An Orderly, Continuous Process. But The World Was Not Continuous; It Changed Discontinuously, And Often By Accident.

I Always Find With My Stories That The Way They Start Is That I Just Get So Interested In A Person That I'm Compelled To Go Back To Them Over And Over Until I Learn More And More About Them, Without Even Quite Thinking It's Material For A Book.

A Credit Default Swap Was Confusing Mainly Because It Wasn't Really A Swap At All. It Was An Insurance Policy, Typically On A Corporate Bond, With Semiannual Premium Payments And A Fixed Term.

Commitment, By Its Nature, Frees Us From Ourselves And, While It Stands Us In Opposition To Some, It Joins Us With Others Similarly Committed. Commitment Moves Us From The Mirror Trap Of The Self Absorbed With The Self To The Freedom Of A Community Of Shared Values.

The Sports World Is An Echo Chamber. All It Takes Is One Quote From A General Manager And A Thousand Sports Columns Bloom.