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Mar 242010

I have this on order, but have not yet read it. Michael Lewis is a total Generation X (born 1961-1981) trader-turned-journalist, whose first book (“Liar’s Poker,” 1989) gave us an inside look at the “greed is good” decade. Now, older and presumably wiser, he takes aim at the recent financial meltdown.

Nice generational quote from the article:

What Lewis writes of two of his characters, young Ledley and Mai, might just as well apply to Lewis himself, or to us: They “had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now they saw there was not.”

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Interesting book, never heard of it, thanks for posting it.
Matthew E

I remember you and Bill cited Lewis and Liar's Poker in 13th Gen (which is what led me to read the book, and, from there, Lewis's other stuff), but I looked it up once and he was born in '60.

Neil Howe

Neil Howe, a historian, economist, and demographer, has authored or coauthored over a dozen books, including: On Borrowed Time (1989, 2004), Generations (1991), The Fourth Turning (1997), Millennials Rising (2000), Millennials Go To College (2003, 2007), The Graying of the Great Powers (2008), The Global Aging Preparedness Index (2010), and Millennials in the Workplace (2010).

Neil is the founder and president of LifeCourse Associates, which advises corporate and nonprofit clients. A senior associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., he also contributes regularly to the CSIS Global Aging Initiative. He received his bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley and master degrees in both history and economics from Yale. Read more about Neil.

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