“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.” IfsWholeWould BeBitsClassTakenFlightRogerScum Book:Capital Source: Capital
“In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.” WorldWould BeUsedIndividualLostLevelsBusinessRiskOne ThingIdealsDollarsListsBillionsFinanceVegetarianSpeakersReducingTradersBettingDerivativesIdeal WorldEsperanto Author:John Lanchester
