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Andrew Ross Sorkin: ‘Wall Street Is Boring’ (VIDEO)

Andrew Ross Sorkin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:00:35 +0000

Andrew Ross Sorkin, of CNBC and The New York Times, has made a name for himself writing about the wheeling and dealing of Wall Street, and the faces and names behind those deals. Watch Sorkin talk to genConnect about what effect his hit book Too Big to Fail had on society, and why he thinks Wall Street is boring now:

Andrew Ross Sorkin with genConnect at the Aspen Ideas Festival; © Robert Millman 2012

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If he has made his living off of reporting on Wall Street, why now does he think Wall Street is “boring?”

There’s still money to be made, Sorkin says, “but kids want to go work for Facebook, they want to work for Twitter, they want to go work in the [Silicon] Valley.”

Sorkin made huge waves with his best-selling book, “Too Big Too Fail,” which was also adapted for an Emmy-award nominated HBO film, during which he received great access to some of the most prominent figures involved in the 2008 Wall Street crash and the aftermath.

“After all of the mistakes these people made, I’m not sure they even appreciated them,” he says of those involved in one of the worst economic crises in recent history. But what’s inspiring about the whole ordeal, he added, is, “when you think about all the things that happened after Lehman’s failure, banks and bankers coming together and also trying,” to resolve the problems, “their efforts were in better faith tham what people give them credit for.”

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What effect does he think his book made on society?

“I think what you hope, more than anything, is that people remember,” Sorkin said. “I think that all too often, we as a culture – Wall Street in particular – but more broadly, we forget,” he said. “If anything, I hope that this project, whether you’re watching the movie or reading the book, that we remember how bad it was and what got us there. And hopefully, we take lessons away from that.”

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Andrew Ross Sorkin: The Financial Crisis – Sequel? (VIDEO)

Andrew Ross Sorkin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:23:13 +0000

Is another financial crisis looming? Watch Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of DealBook and author of the New York Times bestseller Too Big to Fail:

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Andrew Ross Sorkin Discusses Too Big to Fail (VIDEO)

Andrew Ross Sorkin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:56:52 +0000

Watch Andrew Ross Sorkin at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival spend ’2.5 Minutes With genConnect.’ We connected with the NY Times financial columnist.

Click the play button below to watch genConnect Creative Director Kelly Hayes interview Sorkin on his book, Too Big to Fail:

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist for The New York Times. Sorkin is also the editor of Dealbook, which he first started in 2001. He is the author of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem–and Themselves. Sorkin is also a frequent guest on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Sorkin is a graduate of Cornell University and first began writing for the Times in 1995, before he graduated from high school.

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