"When Eric Clapton first heard Jimi Hendrix, he thought he'd be selling shoes in a month."

master manipulators

Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression here.

coup d'état

Matt Taibbi is worried:

They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.

His Rolling Stone article is here.