Other People’s Money — and How the Bankers Use It by Louis D. Brandeis was a collection of articles about the predatory practices of big banks, published in book form in 1914. Nearly a century later, it remains in print. In 1991 Danny de Vito starred as ‘Larry the Liquidator’ in the film Other People’s Money. The wanton boys of banking sport with us in life and art and in Justin Cartwright’s latest novel.
Other People’s Money — and How the Bankers Use It by Louis D. Brandeis was a collection of articles about the predatory practices of big banks, published in book form in 1914. Nearly a century later, it remains in print. In 1991 Danny de Vito starred as ‘Larry the Liquidator’ in the film Other People’s Money. The wanton boys of banking sport with us in life and art and in Justin Cartwright’s latest novel.
Opening with a record of the service of thanksgiving for the life of Sir Harry Trevelyan-Tubal, CBE, Bt, at St Paul’s cathedral, listing attendees both fictional and real — Alfred Brendel played Chopin — it moves to a villa in Antibes where the fading Sir Harry, his voice ‘thin and distorted, like a wartime radio broadcast’, is attended by the loyal and lovelorn Estelle Welz,who has been ‘the pilot fish to his whale’ for the last 32 years.
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