Comments on: Fool’s Gold http://www.debtonation.org/2009/04/fools-gold-2/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: john fletcher http://www.debtonation.org/2009/04/fools-gold-2/comment-page-1/#comment-979 john fletcher Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:32:34 +0000 http://debtonation.org/?p=2335#comment-979 It interests me that Gillian Tett started life as a social anthropologist observing Uzbek tribesmen in the remote Hindu Kush. There she developed the theory that you found out the really interesting things about a society not in the areas everyone was talking about, but the areas no one was talking about - the silences. When she joined the FT she used exactly the same analysis on the City and dived into hedge funds and CDOs and CDSs etc. It interests me that Gillian Tett started life as a social anthropologist observing Uzbek tribesmen in the remote Hindu Kush. There she

developed the theory that you found out the really interesting things about a society not in the areas everyone was talking about, but the areas no

one was talking about – the silences. When she joined the FT she used exactly the same analysis on the City and dived into hedge funds and CDOs and

CDSs etc.

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