Nobody covered the Wall Street collapse, bailout, and corrupt resurgence better than Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, from
giving Goldman Sachs its unforgettable epithet to
covering the hearings on the bailouts to
documenting the foreclosure mills, to
deep dives into the sweetheart deals the banks got; to
the revolving door between finance regulators and the finance sector to
the rise of Occupy; to
the consolidation of financial primacy after the collapse; to the
double-standard for criminal justice revealed by the collapse; to the
frauds that surfaced after the crash; to the
tiny bright spots where bankers were brought to justice; all capped by
an incandescent, outstanding book about the crisis and the systematic racial and economic justice it revealed.
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