Jul 06 2009
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Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed The World (Vanity Fair, August 2009)
Almost a year after AIG’s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant. MICHAEL LEWIS decides to ask the people involved—the silent, shell-shocked traders of the AIG Financial Products unit—and finds that the story may have a villain, whose reign of terror over 400 employees brought the company, the US economy, and the global financial system to their knees.
