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The dramatic report behind the most audacious electricity get in American record. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn't past but prologue. The stunning rise, street to redemption, and save of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout time was the coming-out party for the network of looters who be seated at the nexus of American politics and economic electricity. The grifter school - made up of the major players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding - has been growing in electricity for a technology, transferring wealth upward through increasingly sophisticated financial mechanisms and politics maneuvers. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi here unravels the complete fiendish report, digging beyond the headlines to get into the deeper origins and wider implications of the surge of the grifters. He traces the movement's origins to the cult of Ayn Rand and her most influential - and possibly weirdest - acolyte, Alan Greenspan, and will be offering fresh reporting on the backroom offers that decided the winners and losers in the government bailouts. He uncovers the invisible commodities bubble that moved billions of us dollars to Wall Street while creating food shortages throughout the world, and he shows how funding dominates politics, from the story of investment bankers auctioning off America's infrastructure to an internal bank account of the high-stakes challenge for health-care reform - a challenge the true reformers lost. Finally, he tells the story of Goldman Sachs, the "vampire squid covered around the facial skin of humanity". Taibbi has put together deep sources, trailblazing reportage, and provocative examination to generate the most lucid, psychologically galvanizing, and scathingly funny bank account yet written of the ongoing politics and financial crisis in America. That is essential listening for anyone who would like to understand the labyrinthine inner workings of politics and funding in this country, and the serious consequences for us all.
