Michael Lewis has it long, and Felix Salmon has it short: the U.S. Department of Justice looks out, not for the people of the United States, but rather the people of Goldman Sachs. Lewis discusses in detail the case of Sergei Aleynikov, a one-time Goldman Sachs employee who now faces an eight-year prison sentence, on…
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Yes, Brendan, there is a Santa Claus. You just have to know how to work the son of a bitch
Michael Lewis, just after redefining presidential suck-up with his breathless account of presidential b-ball, relapses from his DC sugar high into enjoyable Wall Street snark. In a recent Bloomberg post, spotted by Felix Salmon, Michael affects to relay advice from 12-year-old texter to fellow sons of former Wall Street geniuses a few ground rules for…
Michael Lewis, not really one of America’s finest journalists, takes presidential porn to a new level
If you’re an important blogger on the web, a Felix Salmon, say, or a Conor Friedersdorf, it’s considered good form to compliment Michael Lewis before pointing out obliquely that he’s full of shit. Conor does so in this excellent takedown, more of Obama himself than Mike, “How Obama Ignored Congress, and Misled America, on War…