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Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").
Perot and his Concord Coalition allies, the New Englanders Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman, were as horrified by the federal deficit as the Mugwumps had been appalled by the support of Bryanite populists for bimetallism and as the Liberal Republicans, a generation earlier in the Gilded Age, had been frightened by paper money.
But, he's quoted, a liquidation of Long-Term would have made investors too frightened to take risks, and risk-taking is "a necessary condition for wealth creation."
Having just returned from Pakistan, I am very seriously frightened, despite today's insipid headlines saying that things are peaceful; if you'd seen what I'd just seen, you'd feel the same way.
His charge is asleep, the grandfather clock ticks peacefully in the background, but Gramps is too frightened to move, lest he disturb the infant.