Saturday, August 8, 2009

Bursting Your Bubble In Six Easy Steps

Ordinarily you won’t find excellent coverage of financial news in non-financial magazines – but Rolling Stone does a bang-up job with an excellent piece of investigative journalism covering Goldman Sachs’ behavior leading-up to the melt-down of the financial sector last year and the humongous government bailout that followed.

An equally excellent job of Goldman’s reach in government and a stab at the next play that may be in the pipeline.

The Great American Bubble Machine - by Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone, issue 1082-83

Read it and see if it doesn’t make you just a wee bit angry…

4 comments:

  1. Here is some research material for you: http://insertwittyblogtitlehere-tosaguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/find-elephant-on-wall-street.html

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  2. Interesting. Thanks for the link.

    I was struck by the depth of the RS coverage. Once in awhile you get a real gem.

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  3. You are welcome. You know me - just trying to be helpful...

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