by Judy Woodruff, New York Review of Books, USA - Judy Woodruff: You write in your new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, that "we are in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression." Was this crisis avoidable? George Soros: I think it was, but it would have required recognition that the system, as it currently operates, is built on false premises.