Matt Taibbi: From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. And they're about to do it again. If America is now circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain.
Truth: Revolutionize your heart out. We'll still have this country by the balls.
Compare: “Are you sure the election was a fraud?” I asked him.
Susan Signe Morrison: This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer’s literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations—material (including privies, dung on fields, and as alchemical ingredient), symbolic (sin, misogynist slander, and theological wrestling with the problem of filth in sacred contexts) and linguistic (a semantic range including dirt and dung)—helps us to see how excrement is vital to understanding the Middle Ages. Applying fecal theories to late medieval culture, Morrison concludes by proposing Waste Studies as a new field of ethical and moral criticism for literary scholars.
From a year ago: American authorities may be deluding themselves into believing they can forestall the endgame of post-bubble adjustments.
Eric Janszen, from February 2008: That the Internet and housing hyperinflations transpired within a period of ten years, each creating trillions of dollars in fake wealth, is, I believe, only the beginning. There will and must be many more such booms, for without them the economy of the United States can no longer function. The bubble cycle has replaced the business cycle.
Cory Doctorow: The real reason to wear the mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial expression ... To make it possible to see without seeing.
The Great American Bubble Machine | 
