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The Boswell of the Bailout

What this meltdown needs is a good novelist.

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Writers are typically among the greatest profiteers of economic turmoil. So why aren’t today’s novelists picking over Wall Street’s bones? The Observer’s William Skidelsky wonders in a smart piece. “[T]he 21st-century Masters of the Universe have remained stubbornly absent from fiction,” Skidelsky writes, and one has to wonder why. Well, for one thing, today’s financial goings-on may be too complex for your average beach reader. Second, one must consider whether the writer is merely living up to his historic role: the world’s lousiest businessman. If you had to find one person less competent than Dick Fuld…

Read it at The Observer

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