Michael Lewis: Financial Crisis Would Have Led To 'Revolt' In Earlier Time

Michael Lewis: Financial Crisis Would Have Led To 'Revolt' In Earlier Time
OAKLAND, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Writer Michael Lewis at Columbia Pictures Premiere of 'Moneyball' to Benefit the Fight Against Cancer with Children's Hospital & Research Center in Oakland and Stand Up to Cancer at the Paramount Theatre of the Arts on September 19, 2011 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage)
OAKLAND, CA - SEPTEMBER 19: Writer Michael Lewis at Columbia Pictures Premiere of 'Moneyball' to Benefit the Fight Against Cancer with Children's Hospital & Research Center in Oakland and Stand Up to Cancer at the Paramount Theatre of the Arts on September 19, 2011 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage)

When I moved to London for graduate school back in the early 1980s, the city felt as if it existed for just about every purpose other than for people to make money in it. Everyone was either on the dole or on strike, or about to be--and not just working-class people.

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