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Book Review: In The Trading Game, Gary Stevenson paints a grim picture of ultra-capitalism
The profession that almost drove the former trader to a nervous breakdown is, he says, making fools of us all
“Life is a game,” the American media mogul Ted Turner once claimed, “and money is how we keep score”. By this measure, Gary Stevenson is clearly one of life’s biggest winners. As the most profitable foreign exchange trader at his old employers Citibank, this East End Londoner’s final bonus alone was worth roughly 70 times an average Irish salary.
According to Stevenson’s visceral, intense and often disturbing memoir, however, he paid a high price for ...
