Interview: Satyajit Das on New Zealand and the global financial crisis

How long can we continue to rack up debt and persist with the same failed policies? Former banker Satyajit Das says it can’t go on.

By Guyon Espiner In Economy

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1st September, 2012

As a best-selling author of books about finance, and a former banker himself, Satyajit Das often gets invited to talk to Cabinet ministers and central bankers. He doesn’t often get invited back. It’s not that he’s unlikeable. He’s a personable, elegant man in his mid-fifties. Das was born in India, but has lived in Australia since the age of 12. He has an aristocratic, effete drawl that occasionally breaks into an impressive falsetto as he delights in the ridiculousness of the state of world finance. For Das, the facts and figures aren’t enough. He daubs in a diverse palette as he ...

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