“There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.” — John Lanchester Quote

“There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.”

“You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.”

“France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.”

“The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.”

“In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.”

“Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.”