Vampire Squids and Goldman Guys

Back in April of this year, Matt Taibbi wrote a fucking seminal piece of investigative journalism on our most recent recession, Goldman Sachs and their role in engineering every major fluctuation in the financial markets since the Great Depression.

When a friend sent me the link yesterday, I read the title (Taibbi’s Takedown of ‘Vampire Squid’ Goldman Sachs) and thought I was dealing with standard conspiracy-theory bullshit –  to be filed alongside Planet X, Lizard People and the Illuminati – and something that was just begging to be dismissed with a brush of the hand. But then I started reading it. By page two I was utterly transfixed.

This is an intelligent, sensitively-written, immaculately-researched treatise that does exactly what it says on the tin – it demolishes the smartest bankers and financial manipulators going, the ‘Goldman Guys’ who’ve spent the last hundred years playing God with the economy and who’ve orchestrated both boom and bubble to meet their own ends.

This article is about as far away from the David-Koresh, Unicorn-Loving, moonshine you’d expect to find in a piece of writing about sinister organisations playing fuck-puppet with our lives. This is great journalism, Pulitzer Prize-grade journalism, and I don’t know how this flew under the radar, but it did.

God Bless Rolling Stone Magazine.

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