As we civilians struggle with global recessions, cost of living crises, inflation, sluggish growth and all the rest of it, we continue to marvel at the stupendous wealth of a few tech billionaires who seem to have escaped the laws of economic gravity. Few escapes lately have been faster than those surfing the crypto bubble, and few were first as impressive and then as notorious as Sam Bankman-Fried.
When Michael Lewis started writing his book (Penguin, 272pp, £25),
