Griftopia
A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
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The best-selling author of The Great Derangement examines American financial, political and media power and argues that the dramatic series of events that led to the financial crisis also resulted in a complete shift of power to the self-interested elite.
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Matt Taibbi's columns in Rolling Stone have been a destination for those trying to understand what happened in the aftermath of the financial meltdown. His book, Griftopia, tries to make the subject even clearer in the colorful language Taibbi's readers know well. "All these big institutional investors essentially got sold oregano when they thought they were buying weed," Taibbi tells NPR's Guy
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