Matt Taibbi's Divide

Just posted my review of Matt Taibbi's book, The Divide, on its page. I liked it a lot -- agree with his thesis that there's something broken about a society that fails to pursue any of the Wall Street criminals who egregiously broke laws and ruined lives in search of bigger year-end bonuses, especially when that society is simultaneously cracking down on -- and cracking heads of -- poor folks in "bad neighborhoods." My only objection to the book was that I thought the anecdotes went on a bit too long, and I thought they were too exclusively focused on the problems of the urban poor, especially in greater New York City.

I'm very happy to see Matt back at Rolling Stone and actually pushing out articles.

Economix covers the same ideas from a different viewpoint.

I listened to this book while running, which was a good idea because it riled me up. I thought I already knew a lot about the underpinnings of the financial crash, from books like Flash Boys and The Lost Bank, but it turns out there was more intentional bad behavior than I had imagined.