The Child at the Window

What 2008 was, and the one system that was kept from playing.

Everyone was playing. Almost everyone. Remember the child at the window.

Bonjourhi!

Here is the thing no one tells you about the men who nearly ended the world economy in 2008. They were not criminals or geniuses. They were playing games. Simple ones, the kind you played as a child, in a yard, before dinner.

Strip the jargon from what happened, the tranche…