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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Matt Taibbi

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• Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial