I didn’t mean

. . . to sell Taibbi’s style short in my previous post. It’s there in Griftopia.

“The basic scan in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.”