[W]e have opted in this book to use the word catechesis rather than substitute something in its place. Our strategy is to retain and explain, rather than to reject and replace.

A CDO squared is a CDO that only uses other CDOs as collateral. The CDO cubed is a special purpose vehicle with securitization payments in the form of tranches. A CDO cubed is backed by CDO squared tranches, allowing the banks to resell the credit risk they had taken once again by repackaging their CDO-squared.

Zhen decided he liked Robert, although the Englishman smiled too much. Perhaps this was the ang mo way. In China, if a man smiled too much he was considered effeminate, but Zhen noticed that Baba Tan was completely at ease with them and laughed and smiled more in their company than when he was with the Chinese.

Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; …