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2008 Financial Crisis

‘But Sorkin’s own reporting, if not his tone, entirely confirms Taibbi. Goldman was everywhere.’

‘The financial and corporate system alone validates them. It defines them. It must be served.’

Mother Jones Special Report: The Accountability Deficit

Anne Enright: Ireland does recession

Taibbi: ‘Instead of reining in Wall Street, Obama has allowed himself to be seduced by it’

“The very people who created the damn mess are the ones now arguing that consumers ought not to be protected”

Sweep of the fiscal counter-revolution

‘Without question, the credit rating system is one of the capitalism’s strangest hybrids’

If ice is civilization, then artificial snow is post-civilization

Francis Fukuyama: History is still over

Harry Shearer struggles to believitise financial euphemisms

‘Financial miracles this week, NOW NOW NOW!’

McClatchy’s five-month investigation into Goldman Sachs’ peddling of shaky securities continues

1848 redux?

LRB at 30: Masterful fight-back of the bankocratic order

The Pentagon insurgency

Forbes columnist: Don’t try to get rich!

Chomsky on the ‘numerous very severe crises’ for both ‘them and us’

Taibbi on naked short-selling

Remittances reassessed