Hi, I'm Mary, I'm Williamson, and thank you for joining with me on the podcast a few

months ago.

My daughter had flown back home to London and when she got there, she called me and she

said, Mommy, you have to read this book called The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.

She said, it's unbelievable.

I read it on the plane, I couldn't stop reading it, you have to go get it immediately.

Michael Lewis, I said the same Michael Lewis who wrote the book that the big short was

based on.

She said, yeah, it's the same guy.

I had heard of him.

I knew he had written Moneyball.

I knew that he had written the blind side and I loved the big short.

I loved the way it explains the economic crisis of 2008 and the way that I had not really

understood before.

But because my daughter told me to go get the fifth risk, I did just on her recommendation.

And that book blew my mind.

That book explained things to me that I hadn't understood before, not really, and explained

things to me that seemed to me to be so key to what not only was going wrong in the Trump

administration, but what needed to be made right once the Trump administration was over.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan became president and one of his most famous lines was that the

most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to

help you.

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