Going Infinite: a rush job that’s already dated

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Author : Michael Lewis ISBN-13 : 978-0241651117 Publisher : Allen Lane Guideline Price : £25 The first alarm bell in Michael Lewis’s much-heralded account of the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX arrives as early as the book’s first sentence. Lewis tells us, with surprising candour, that he first heard of Bankman-Fried at the end of 2021, from a friend who was about to complete a deal with the precocious billionaire who is now on trial on multiple charges of fraud. Less than two years...