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Lewis wrote Moneyball and the Big Short, so this might be a good book. If I wait for it, I wonder if there will be a movie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/books/review-fifth-risk-michael-lewis.html
Interview I just heard says it has a lot to do with Trump not thinking he was going to win and not wanting to spend money on the transition. So he put Chris Christie in charge of it, thinking it was a waste of time. When he won and all of the suddenly all those transition people mattered, he started firing and replacing them all because he never meant for Christie to actually exercise that kind of power. As a result, lots of the briefings prepared for the transition team explaining risks facing the nation and what had been done up to that time didn't have an audience and something like half of the top 700 posts still aren't filled. When they are filled, it's often by people unqualified or openly hostile to the task (and it doesn't even cover the EPA).
The title is a reference to the fact that lots of these positions were held by people that were tasked with studying and managing the thousands of risks to various elements of the US. If you ask these people what are they worried about, they list 3 or 4 things. The author kept thinking about the 5th risk that nobody in the current administration got the presentation on, the risk that's now going un-monitored and unaddressed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/books/review-fifth-risk-michael-lewis.html
Interview I just heard says it has a lot to do with Trump not thinking he was going to win and not wanting to spend money on the transition. So he put Chris Christie in charge of it, thinking it was a waste of time. When he won and all of the suddenly all those transition people mattered, he started firing and replacing them all because he never meant for Christie to actually exercise that kind of power. As a result, lots of the briefings prepared for the transition team explaining risks facing the nation and what had been done up to that time didn't have an audience and something like half of the top 700 posts still aren't filled. When they are filled, it's often by people unqualified or openly hostile to the task (and it doesn't even cover the EPA).
The title is a reference to the fact that lots of these positions were held by people that were tasked with studying and managing the thousands of risks to various elements of the US. If you ask these people what are they worried about, they list 3 or 4 things. The author kept thinking about the 5th risk that nobody in the current administration got the presentation on, the risk that's now going un-monitored and unaddressed.
