Links tagged with “banking”
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GSElevator on Wall Street watches - Business Insider
I love things like this where outside of that little world you’d have no idea about the distinctions.
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John Lanchester · Are we having fun yet?: The Biggest Scandal of All · LRB 4 July 2013
This and the second part are so worth a read. Banks are mind-boggling.
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What Happened at the Macondo Well? by Peter Maass | The New York Review of Books
I like the parallels drawn between the oil and banking industries: “lax government regulation, corporate profits despite the risks, a fawning press”, disasters blamed on rogue companies rather than industry-wide problems.
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LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished
Very long but very worth reading, on the collapse of the banks. One day I hope there’s a book called “John Lanchester Explains Everything”.