... Bernard Connolly and Matthew Saal, payments experts Eric Grover and Michael Lewis, as well as Angus Walker, Antony Elliot of Fairbanking, historian and author Louis Hyman, and Professor Hal ... leading global financial-services firm a short history and explanation of financial markets, manias, and panics to help the general reader understand and cope with the calamity of 2008. He has been ... to avoid playing out yet another act in Karl Marx’s perennially and maddeningly correct dictum that history appears first as tragedy and then returns as farce.But such a book isn’t missing anymore....