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James Surowiecki
I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.

Stories By James Surowiecki

What Do Sam Bankman-Fried’s Weird Ideas About Risk Have to Do With FTX’s Collapse?

Looking at what happened at FTX through the prism of his ideas about risk makes you wonder whether he viewed the possibility of FTX collapsing and him being arrested for fraud as just another risk he was willing to take in pursuit of this huge upside he was chasing.