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And here he is:
He is the single guy who crashed the world economy. BTW, he isn't in prison because what he did was all legal.
Read about it here: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis.
We're screwed. The 2008-2009 bailouts were orchestrated by the very institutions that caused a near global economic meltdown.
Another read which will have you sick to your stomach: Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The story behind Treasury's 800 billion dollar bailout. Also, a good HBO movie: here. An all star cast. Scary shit went down; and Paulson did not have a clue of what was happening. They were more worried about politics.
And it hasn't changed since then.
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