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The Insider How Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman Freed, by

Summonth Sub-Bremanian. Right around the time the gales of the financial crisis were tearing up Wall Street in 2009,

Meredith Whitney started her own financial research firm.

Whitney, a stock market analyst, had predicted the crash of the previous year, and among the journalists who had sought her out

had been Michael Lewis.

When her new Manhattan office opened and she threw a party for all the muck-it- mucks, she invited Lewis. He had just published a magazine

article calling Wall Street's Titans greedy and stupid. So thrusting him into a gathering

of those self-same Titans was like taking a Broadway Hechler into the plays dressing rooms.

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