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The low tricks of high finance: how greedy bankers, weak politicians and timid journalists could cause a new crash

Michael Lewis, the author behind the new movie The Big Short, is furious that reforms have been blocked

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

It amazes me, simply amazes me, that journalists aren’t all over these stories. Doesn’t it amaze you too?’

I’m in a plush room in a swanky central London hotel, in conversation with Michael Lewis. He is all fired up, leaning forward as he perches on the hard edge of the cushion-strewn sofa.

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Liam Halligan is an economist, financial journalist and broadcaster and a former Moscow Times columnist.

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