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In sport, the money goes to the talent; it goes directly to the worker - unlike a bank, which sits in the middle of transactions and whose income bears no relation to any of the services it provides.

~John Lanchester

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I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.

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Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism?

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Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.

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Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.

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The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it absolutely terrifying that - something about the way the machine just kind of coughed up money with no difficulty.

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There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

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Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.

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The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.

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I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: February 25th, 1962

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