All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.