Book review: Riding the rollercoaster with Sam Bankman-Fried

Reading Big Short author Michael Lewis’s portrait of the tycoon is essential to understand the story of FTX, says our reviewer.

Michael Lewis’s latest book, Going Infinite, takes us on a rollercoaster ride in a whole new amusement park – the crypto world. NFT, FTX, SBF – if those three-letter acronyms ring a bell, this book is for you. If they don’t – you have some catching up to do.

With Lewis, you

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