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David Langsam

David Langsam reviews ‘The World’s Banker: A story of failed states, financial crises and the wealth and poverty of nations’ by Sebastian Mallaby

April 2005, no. 270 01 April 2005
Each day I commute with Melbourne’s wage slaves on a privatised transport system that is invariably overcrowded due to cancelled or delayed trains. Dark thoughts whirl as I read Sebastian Mallaby’s The World’s Banker, a tale of ambition multiplied by ambition. In recent weeks, I have edited countless business stories, many of them half-year reports boasting profits of tens or even hundreds o ... (read more)