About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

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Fiction and Finance

Recommendations of works of fiction of interest to financial practitioners or enthusiasts.

Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard

Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.

Working title (insurance)

Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?

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