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The Fifth Risk

The Fifth Risk is a 2018 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis that examines the transition and political appointments of the first Donald Trump presidency, especially with respect to three government agencies: the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce. The "fifth risk" is poor management which eventually results in a dramatic negative outcome.

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John MacWilliams, a risk management expert at the United States Department of Energy from the Obama Administration, gave Lewis the top five risks he saw for the department: broken arrows (loose nuclear weapons and nuclear accidents), North Korean nuclear weapons, an end to the Iran nuclear deal, protecting the electrical grid from cyberterrorism, and internal project management. It is this fifth risk that inspired the title of the book. ==See also==
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