If you run an organisation, there are some reporters you definitely don’t want around: Ronan Farrow asking for comment; Madison Marriage or Dan McCrum with a couple of questions; Michael Wolff hanging out on a sofa taking notes. Michael Lewis is not one of those reporters. If he wants to spend time with you, you are about to be lionised as a decent person who sees just a bit more clearly than the fools who run the system of which you are a part, which will make you wildly rich (unless you’re an academic or a public servant) and famous. When Michael Lewis calls, people answer.
Lewis raises enough questions for one to finish the book less sure of Bankman-Fried’s guilt than at the start
When Zeke Faux calls, they often don’t. A reporter for Bloomberg, Faux spends a lot of Number Goes Up being given the runaround by the management team of Tether, a stablecoin (a crypto token pegged to the US dollar) that he suspects of misleading customers about the depth of its reserves.
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