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Piecing it together 拼拼凑凑见真相 All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of theFinancial Crisis. By Bethany McLean and JoeNocera. 《万魔聚此：金融危机隐藏的历史》，Bethany McLean和 Joe Nocera著。 The latest book on the financial crisis has an oddtitle. You begin reading All the Devils Are Here, aline from Shakespeare s The Tempest, expectingto encounter satanic bankers and corrupt government cronies preying on a defencelesspublic. In fact the people who emerge are infinitely more interesting: arrogant, desperate,even cluelessbut, with a few exceptions, not devils. 这本最新出炉的讨论经济危机的书有个奇怪的名字。万魔聚此，读到这句出自莎士比亚《暴风雨》剧中的对白，你可能会觉得书中讲的应该是穷凶极恶的银行家和与之狼狈为奸的腐败政府官员如何如何侵害毫无招架之力的公众。但实际上里面提及的人物却比这耐人寻味得多：傲慢者、铤而走险者，甚至还有无知之徒，但除了少数人之外，他们都算不上恶魔。 Take Angelo Mozilo. From the time he started Countrywide Financial in the late 1960s theBronx-born outsider was convinced he could put millions of deserving families in homes,maintain impeccable underwriting standardsand get rich. That became impossible as thesubprime mania grew. By 2006 Mr Mozilo had a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde quality, the authorsnote, giving warning that disaster loomed while at the same time insisting his companywould still thrive. In fact, Countrywide had become a leading purveyor of toxic mortgageproducts that would take the company to the brink of bankruptcy. | 
