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“As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?”

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Richard Dooling

Richard Dooling is an American novelist born in 1954. His works primarily focus on suspense and crime novels, which have gained him a wide readership. more

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