The Short Version: Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone reporter and closest thing we have to a gonzo journalist these days, famously called Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in an RS article called “The Great American Bubble Machine”.  In Griftopia, he expands on that article, looking into the causes and fallout of not just the 2008 crash but really just how f*cked our (humanity’s, that is) financial system is today, at home and abroad. The Review: I am […]

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