Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Well, we should explain who she is for people.
We might be due.
We're speaking with Andrew Ross Zork, an author of 1929, Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation.
Does Herbert Hoover get a bad rap?
You write that the antidote to irrational exuberance is not regulation by itself, nor skepticism, but humility.
The humility to know that no system is foolproof, no market fully rational, and no generation exempt.
Do you see that humility out there today?
I said it better in the book than I just said it now.
And we have the full screen for it.
Love the boomers.
I got to get you watching it.
I know, I know.
Oh, this is like, yeah, now you're throwing the ball underhand here.
What am I... I don't know, how am I supposed to answer that?
You know, I've been sort of blessed and lucky to be born with sort of a...
a super sense of curiosity, honestly, like even when I was a child, I just wanted to I would go want to meet my my parents friends and ask them questions.
And it's not really about even business.
I would ask the guy on the corner of the street who sells the bagels questions.
I just oh, I'm fascinated by people and what makes them tick and why they do what they do and just trying to understand who they are and what they want to be.
And I think it's a little bit, I think the one thing that I may do that might help is I think I'm always putting myself in their shoes.